In other words, she's living with a disability. How severe, there is a dispute. But we simply do not kill people because they are disabled: severely retarded children are allowed to live, for the moment, for example. Furthermore, where there is life, there is hope - it may very well be that adult stem cell therapy could restore some of her brain cell function, for example. But now we'll never know, and what is worse, "Dasein Ohne Leben", existence without life, has become an excuse for killing someone, something which even the Nazis practiced, but out of shame which Judge Greer apparently does not possess didn't enshrine it in law.
Regards, Ivan
Good post MI.
"I think people are missing the point - even if Terri's brain function was minimal, it is not terminal, meaning, without artificial life support, she would not die. She merely requires the necessities we all require in order to live as long as the rest of us."
Excellent post, MadIvan. It is nice to see a reasonable voice in the sea of insanity.
Remember when premature babies were just left to die, with no effort to save them. It was useless to save something that had no chance, so people thought. Now we have wonderful healthy children where once we would have had a funeral.
Terri can still possibly teach us something. Maybe something wonderful to give life to someone else who wouldn`t have been able to in the past. Maybe she could be that person who defies the odds and shows us that the doctors were wrong.
I will always try to look at what life can teach us. Killing her doesn`t teach us anything. It only shows us at how little we have come.