I agree with you. I am a very pro-life person, but I failed to see how this case was different from the thousands of other cases where someone with no hope of recovery is removed from life support each year. A lot of people got hoodwinked in the Schivo matter. The simple fact is that modern technology allows us to keep physical bodies alive long past when the mind and sprit are gone. If there is any minute reasonable hope that someone will ever recover, we need to use these technologies. If we are just keeping alive bodies when the mind has zero chance of ever recovering, then we are doing nothing but playing god and that person should be allowed to return to the lord. Teri was brain dead, and had no chance of ever waking up again. Her cerebral cortex had ceased working, and her EEG was flat. None of the kook's conspiracy theories (and i'm sure i'll hear them all again after posting this) change this. There was a zero percent chance she'd ever wake again, and after fifteen years it was time to let her go. This should have been a private matter for her family like the thousands of other cases (most less severe than hers) a year when someone is taken off of life support.
Congress coming back into session over this was one of the most disgusting displays of political grandstanding i’ve ever seen. It was nothing but a cheap attempt to distract us from more important issues like the borders, and outrageous federal spending. Seeing all the Jesse Jackson type charlatans and attention hounds flock to this case was equally disgusting. None of them cared a whit about Teri.
Apparently you were "hoodwinked" as your very false statement above proves.
Feeding tubes are NOT modern technology. They have been around in one form or another since EGYPTIAN times and were used in the civil war.
Furthermore, Terri Schindler was NOT brain dead and was diagnosed by a Florida DCF physician on her fourth day of her last dehydration, starvation as semiconscious.
We have had the ability to keep severely disabled people like Terri alive for over a hundred years, if not longer. However, the reality of modern day "enlightened thinking" is the lives of less and less sick and disabled people are deemed worth living.