[tessalu]

I do not agree that a living will would have helped, for I do believe that most people would never believe that our courts or government would push for starving or denying water to any human being. I know that I could not have guessed that.

It was just so unbelievingly cruel to force the parents and blood family of Terri Schiavo to watch this cruel and heartless death. No human on earth should be subjected to watch this sort of death, and have the courts to actually not allow them to do anything at all.

[ClaireSolt]

I think the government should back off in any new legislation. I don't think that their laws made a bad situation any better. I went through a very similar situation when I was 25 and conflict was resolved within the family. It did not result in starving my husband.

[Tarantulas]

I agree with part of what you said. The living will would have done no good, since the Schindlers vowed they would have gone to court to force Terri to live in that condition even if she had said (in writing, notarized) that she would rather die.

Keeping the government from legislating against my end of life decision seems to me to be the best course of action.