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So many keep confusing their decisions to let their terminal relatives go with Terri.

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.

I don't think you and your family made the wrong decision.

What you did was not murder..what was done to Terri was. I personally would want the government to step in if someone was going to kill me needlessly.

...my fear is that these decisions will be taken from the family, and given to the government.

WAKE UP!  That evil day is fast upon you!

The decision for Terri was handed down by a judge who chose to give credence to the word of a lying, unfaithful, untrustworthy tramp and a brace of in-laws and shrug off relevant and competing testimony from everyone on Terri's own side of the family.  Terri's case is the harbinger of the impending ascent of your worst nightmare: court-ordered euthanasia.

What you fear is precisely what most all of us have been decrying in this case: that government unjustly intervened and forced the decision over the outcry of family members and despite serious inconsistencies, irregularities and glaring conflicts of interest.  We are one thin line from this becoming a milestone in the blood campaign of the death cultists.  The severely disabled are now in "Check", and the next move will be "Checkmate".

This must not be allowed to happen.  Not now; not ever.

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There was therapy that Terri had been receiving; to the point that she was beginning to learn to walk, again.  After the HINO won his malpractice case, and the money hit the bank, the therapy was halted; snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.  Ironically, he had claimed that the awarded money would be required to pay for the therapy that Terri needed.  Did it?  No.  Not one thin dime.

We commonly see people who have a spouse in dire medical straits, and these people, though emotionally taxed, by and large stand by their spouses "for better or for worse".  Not Michael Schiavo.  Yet the court conveniently overlooked his depraved behavior and gave no consideration as to what that said about his character.  He had two bastard children by a woman not his wife with whom he maintaned an ongoing affair during the last years of his wife's life; plainly stating his intent to marry after his wife's death.  Of course, because his little porn star wants a proper Catholic church wedding, he absolutely couldn't divorce Terri; that would have spoiled the effect entirely.  Nevermind that it would have also given the Schindler's their daughter back -- alive.

Frankly, had I been in Terri's place, seeing my husband turn into a self-absorbed, philandering, nymphomaniacal, whorehound like Michael Schiavo would make me want to die just to be rid of my marital bond to his perverse and disgusting self.

There's more, but we've hashed it through a thousand times, already and, if you don't get it by now, you probably never will; unless, perhaps, you end up on a situation like Terri's.  Oh, you'd really get it, then.  And how.  Of course, then it would be far too late, wouldn't it?
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