"I guess I am just an amoral guy of fella. "
Yeah you probably are that, and the person whose feedtube you saw removed and died so peacefully was not Terri. Hard to compare all the different medical conditions that bring the "feeding tube" onto the scene and it's true that sometimes when there is no heart beat and a person is kept alive only by machines, you just turn them off. Terri was alive and well, she just couldnt feed herself, not that they went out of their way to retrain her, doing one test at one time for 3 times is not Therapy. It's not retraining an injured brain to perform where the injured part no longer can. She was not given a fair chance for survival. With an odious husband such as MS and I say husband with loads of sarcasm, she had no chance. I'd venture to guess if he had not received a ton of money from and lawsuit that was settled out of court (always good to remember), he'd of given custody of Terri back to her parents and gone on with his life the way he should of done all along instead of creating this horror.
I dont agree with your view on the Schaivo case...
Alive and well? Well.. yes Terri was alive but well? Give me a break. IF Terri was well or even getting better at all, she certainly would have been able to respond to a stimulus of ANY kind and probably would have been able to feed herself or even for that fact have the ability to eat SOLID FOOD that someone else spoon fed her. Yes on occasion she was able to be forcefed some pudding... if that was my condition I would hardly try to fool anyone by saying I was "well."
She was not given a fair chance for survival
Is 16 years of inactivity and inability to respond to stimulus not enough time to show signs of improvement. I saw nothing but deterioration of her condition. Oh yeah.. weve all seen the carefully edited video of her responding to a balloon. Where's the rest of the video? I mean, I am sure there had to be more than 15 seconds of video of all this improvement and active motor skills of hers. I won't even start in on the Schindler's. Only point out the fact that Michael was the person at her bedside on a regular occurrence. Her parents maybe visited monthly... OH.. but I am sure youve heard otherwise right?