[sodpoodle]

There really are two separate questions:

Would you want to live like Terri? and
Would you want to be slowly starved to death over 13 days, like Terri?

The first question is so ridiculous, for who would ever answer 'YES'?

The second question, for any thinking person, is "NO".

Another contrived phrase "The Right to Die" does not exist in law. Civilized society has determined there is no "Right to Kill" but it was done in this case,under cover of law.

Life experience and common sense screamed for a more thorough review of the facts and the law before Terri was killed.

In FR we have seen the righteous indignation of anti-euthenasia people (called hysterical) and the callous legalisms of the 'rights of the spouse' side.

Life will never be the same for FR - or, more importantly, the Schindlers
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[presently no screen name]

Good post.

[Jorge]

Would you want to live like Terri? and Would you want to be slowly starved to death over 13 days, like Terri?
The first question is so ridiculous, for who would ever answer 'YES'?
The second question, for any thinking person, is "NO".

The second question is so incomplete as to be misleading.

It really should ask;
Would you want to be KEPT in a horrible helpless and hopeless state of existance, from which you could NEVER recover, for years on end and slowly die over God knows how long a period of time..connected to a feeding tube......OR be able to reduce it to 13 days in a morphine induced state of comfort?

The fact is many people who make such decisions in their living wills DO NOT want to be kept alive in such a state of existance for years on end.

YOU don't know what Terri would have wanted.
The courts simply found that her husband expressed her wishes for such a situation.