I agree with much of what you have said. What really bothers me most at this juncture is something you just mentioned and I posted on other other thread I started a few days ago [and I don't know why there has not been an outcry in editorials about this]:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1369633/posts?page=67#67
He & Michael Schiavo both belie their intent, motives, and prejudiced state of mind by not ordering the hospice to see FIRST if she could eat soft foods and drink by non-artificial means before carrying out the directive to pull the tube. Often, tube feeding is for the convenience of the hospice or home --- too labor intensive to feed by hand, especially if the disability precludes use of a cup or eating utensils.
Why didn't it ever occur to anyone to try! Now that the tube is pulled, how can it be lawful to not try to give her sustenance by non-artificial means. If a ventilator is pulled a person breathes or they don't. Air is present to be inhaled. If a feed tube is pulled, a patient should be presented water and food via a means to ingest it. In Terri's case, a sponge. Why? Because she did it before, and it hasn't been tried since. It may not work now, but how is it possible it has not been attempted as a last resort.
IIRC - a couple of the nurses have stated that they did do a test for the Hospice - with Michael and hospital admin present - and they fed her jello and pudding which she ate with no problem.
Michael threw a fit and said he was not going to pay to have nurses hand feeding her and he ordered the feeding tube. If he was so interested in preserving the money then .. he must have stopped the rehab for the same reason .. after her death he would get what was remaining.
What I am trying to say is that it may be lawful to pull the tube (per court decision), but it is NOT lawful to NOT feed and hydrate her by NON-artificial means and see if she can take it into her body!!! 6 days ago and even now!!! Why didn't/doesn't anybody see that.
No judge, law, or murderous husband can prevent that -- not then, not now.
In this case, there is no cause for execution, hence, this is murder.
If Terri wants to live, she will make fast progress, provided she is capable at this point...