Terri could have lived happily for many years. She was healthy..not terminal.
So many keep confusing their decisions to let their terminal relatives go with Terri.
It's sad.
Not so much sad as terrifying.
I don't know what " So Many" want, but my fear is that these decisions will be taken from the family, and given to the government. I don't think it belongs there. Course I'm not a big believer in having the government run my family.
>>>So many keep confusing their decisions to let their terminal relatives go with Terri.>>>
You said it!
My mother died from cancer, I would not have considered putting her on any tubes. She was not Terri. Terri was alive and well, just brain damaged.
What is scarier to me is that people like 'astounded' think that the determination of who should live and who should die are other people saying "I wouldn't want to live like that". People are too damn weak in this country and have NOOOO idea under what conditions the will to live is. There are people who say they wouldn't want to live if they couldn't walk, but faced with that situation, changed their mind.
This attitude above is the exact reason I cannot bring myself to listen to Neal Boortz any longer. The fact that he wants the liberatarian 'live and let live', but supports a government enforced murder. He makes me sick.