The media and the legal pundits play the public. There is no room in legal discussion for words like mercy and compassion and conscience (god forbid!). All the happy little legal suits will glady tell you we should all celebrate that 'emotions' don't play into judicial and legal decisions.....
Of course, when the legals that want to Terri to die are put on the spot they will all of sudden act so compassionate and proclaim she is 'not suffering' as if they know anything about it. These people don't give a rat's a$$ if she is suffering or not. They just want to gloat and smirk that they were 'correct' in their predictions of the legal decisions and they stand on the 'side of the law' with their opinions. Oh, but we don't dare call them for what they truly are.
Cold, heartless, souless, callous, cruel and merciless. They really don't care about those 'qualities' anyway. They just conveniently pretend to know of them when the cameras are on....
Do you think that taking this case to court has been helpful, or would not everyone be just as well off if this decision had to be hammered out between family and doctors?