BR: No one would in the right mind be willing to bet their life on this - yet you and others have the audacity to bet Terri's life on it.
I think you are right to ask those who defend the process if they would submit to it themselves. You are wrong to misrepresent what I say. My statement (quoted again above) speaks for itself.
I would bet my life on the process, were I in Terri's condition. In fact, I would welcome it -- and, as I have said many times, I would welcome the same result. [In fact, if you want to try to prove I am in a PVS condition right now, have at it.]
And just because you would be willing to gamble your life away if such a circumstance would befall you what gives you or anyone else the right to gamble another persons right to life away.
Now, you switch sides and say, "Just because you would, doesn't mean anything." Well, it does mean something, because we owe a duty to treat others as we would want to be treated (Matt 7:12). I can't speak to you personally because you haven't said what your desires would be were you to be found in Terri's condition. But I think the majority of people here taking your position congratulate themselves on taking what they think is a "highly principled position" requiring people like Terri to slog on with stomach pumps, bedsores and diapers for the "greater good" of the advocates' love of "life." And, after all, they think, what difference does it make that poor Terri is debased and degraded and made a fool of -- she doesn't know it anyway.
Well, it does make a difference. She (and others like her) are not your pet monkeys to be debased and degraded for some "greater good" of a principle that has no Biblically moral or legal basis. Terri had a right to die. The process was fair. Her wishes were honored. It was painless and humane. She's free at last and none of your arrogant self-righteousness can trap her again in her imprisonment. Maybe that's why your so upset.