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Unfortunately, we don't know what this patient wants. Her gurdian makes the decision. That's the way it's always been in this country. Are we going to throw that decision making power over to the government? I don't want the governemnt deciding what should be done. I trust my husband to do what I have told him.

Unfortunately, we don't know what this patient wants. Her gurdian makes the decision. That's the way it's always been in this country. Are we going to throw that decision making power over to the government? I don't want the governemnt deciding what should be done.

To the best of my knowledge, there are NO exceptions to the rule that the patient's wishes must be followed. In this case, the court found that Terri wanted this course of action. That is the only way the order can legally be carried out. The guardian did not "make the decision," he merely informed the court regarding his understanding of Terri's wishes. Others offered evidence of Terri's wishes as well. The court concluded that Terri would order her caregivers to stop feeding and watering her otherwise healthy body, if she could give the order.

In this case, a judge "decided" what Terri's wishes were, based on evidence. So your "I don't want the governemnt deciding what should be done." is already fact. If you aren't there to decide, the law will try to discern what you would do.

I wonder if an advance directive that said "I want to be fed and watered, but if I am in a PVS, please hasten my natural death by removing me from shelter and placing me in a climate below 10 degrees F" would be found ethical and legal. As a matter of fact, I would rather freeze to death than starve to death. Do I get my wish, if the choice comes down to that? Or would that be considered Dr.-assisted suicide, see e.g., Dr. Kevorkian, who is in jail for helping patients carry out their written wishes.

I trust my husband to do what I have told him.

Oh please, enough is enough. Would you trust your husband if he had a new girlfriend and two kids with drool runnning down the corner of his mouth every time he thinks of you dead and a million bucks in his pocket?

If you have followed this case close enough you should, I'd hope, see that the Court -- has determined on its own who the guardian is, and most recently by Greer -- he has said in a recent order that he the Judge has detemined what Terri's wishes are and not the husband may now say otherwise.

Greer orders that Terri wants to die and orders that she shall and Judges in Florida and Atlanta agree -- insane, overreaching and murderous.

When they choose for you to die, they will pick a guardian that will make their wish so and they will -- by order -- demand that death is your wish too.

You have no protection. It is Rule of Murderer Kings -- rule of the industry of death by hospice and hospital.

Do you not think in recent years more accurate tests to determine actual brain activity are available and have been denied to Terri. Wouldn't you like to see an MRI done? Hearsay evidence by a nurse who was not the nurse 8 years ago but in 2001 allegedly fired in 2003 for going to the police about the insulin incident. I would like this to investigated before we kill her. If in fact she is "brain dead" then she really won't care one way or another if we feed her or not , will she? If she is not then she might damn well be caring.