Let me bring you up to speed with the original statement:
I find it ironic that many on the Left who are supposedly all about compassion (gun control, no war, welfare, etc) are now all about "let the girl die"!
Conversely, there are many on the Right who normally about getting the government out of our business - and are now calling for "legislation for what ails us"
This whole circus is over the top.
It only came about because the parents didn't agree with what MS and Terri's wishes were, and decided to sue/legislate to get their way. By supporting this, we are validating everything the Gore camp did by trying to sue/legislate their way into the White House.
This whole thing is a circus. Look at FR - you can't even get any other info right now because everyone is so hysterical/so full of their opinion/so inconsiderate that they're clogging the boards with this - as if nothing else of importance is happening in the world.
Additionally - look at the venom and name calling that goes on when someone DARES mention that it really isn't even slightly our business. It's not, after all. This is a very private hell between family members that someone chose to take all the way to the Supreme Court.
It's honorable to want your kid to live - and a natural part of parenting. But just like nobody can prove that Terri said she wouldn't want to live that way - nobody can prove that she did, either. And the original laws allowed for the spouse to make the decision.
And you know what? THAT IS the right way to look at it. I don't want anyone but my wife deciding this for me, and vice versa.
If all of the hysterical unproven accusations about MS are true, then he'll have to answer to God. In the meantime, Terri will pass, and go on to a better place where her arms/legs/brain work again. That's what I'd want for myself, not for someone to maintain me in some sort of pathetic shadow of what I had been, solely out of some misplaced (if well-intentioned) sense of duty.
There have even been folks here on FR that say that it doesn't matter what a person wishes, you should always keep them alive. How would you like to be married to these types of people? "I don't care what you want, as long as I'm comfortable with the situation.
How honorable is that?
The good that will come of this is that hopefully folks will make their wishes known - AND get it in writing, so that people that know ZERO about the whole situation will have no opportunity to cram their wishes down your throat.
That is my main opinion in this whole mess:
A. It's really none of our business.
B. Make your wishes known, and get it in writing.
Of course, now I'll get to hear about how I'm some hellbound death cultist. That's the level of discourse here lately.
So get off your high horse, and quit putting words/opinions in my mouth.