That is NOT what the Shiavo case was about AT ALL.
Maybe not on the surface, but ultimately it comes down to this question.
The issue is of course complicated by questions regarding her husband's testimony on her wishes.
Everybody knows that this was a euthanasia case, no ifs and s or buts.
That's your opinion. And you could be right.
Still when it comes to the law it was about the right of an individual to decide on what medical measures could or could not be used to keep them alive.
Jorge: What if they were wrong? What if Terri in fact did want to live and was screaming for mercy on the inside while she was starved to death, but couldnt voice that desire?
That would be a horrible thing.
But somehow I couldn't imagine someone with the ability to think about such issues, after being in such a state as she was for 15 years, begging for more of the same.
I would tend to think a person would rather want to be liberated from such a prison of a living death.
That's just my opinion. I would want to be let go.
But wouldn't want to have had to been required to swear it on oath beforehand... too much TROUBLE
"Maybe not on the surface, but ultimately it comes down to this question."
No it doesnt.
If her wishes were as clear to Terri's own parents as you apparently think, there would have been no court case because her parents would not have fought for her life as they did.
They have stated throughout that Terri didn't want to die prematurely like this.
"Everybody knows that this was a euthanasia case, no ifs and s or buts."
This is not an opinion, but a fact: It is a FACT that Judge Greer and Michael Schiavo made the decision to kill Terri Schiavo.
That is called euthanasia, to make such a decision on behalf of someone else.
Terri was no longer in the state to make that call.
"That would be a horrible thing."
Yes, it *was* a horrible thing.
" I would tend to think a person would rather want to be liberated from such a prison of a living death."
YUP. Spoken like a non-disabled person who'd maybe be a bit scary to some disabled folks fearing EUTHANASIA... you have just *presumed* that she would want death and have 'made the decision for her'. "Life" is not a 'living death'. Life is life.