Arggh! I just fired off a reply to Dave S saying essentially the same thing! That's what I get for posting before reading all the replies first.
I take it you've spent at least some time around an institution for the retarded. I get the impression that some people supporting the murder of Terri think that hers is an extreme case, as far as disabilities go, and have no idea that plenty of people are born even less abled than she.
Exactly, that's why I'm going to keep hammering the point that those who support killing Terri on compassionate grounds, as if that's a legitimate argument are basically saying that all people of her mental capacity should be denied food and water till they die. And there are literally hundreds of thousands of severely handicapped individuals throughout the country as or less aware of their surroundings then Terri was.