[The Red Zone]

Ultimately with "logic" like this you end up indulging the comfort of the relatives not the disabled person.

Those anti-terribots should ask themselves why did it take a creep like George Felos to counsel this to fruition, a guy who unashamably acts like an Erl-King trying to coax his subjects into his netherworld? Why not some dishwater dull barrister?

[HairOfTheDog]

Ultimately with "logic" like this you end up indulging the comfort of the relatives not the disabled person.

Not sure what you're saying here.

Those anti-terribots should ask themselves why did it take a creep like George Felos to counsel this to fruition, a guy who unashamably acts like an Erl-King trying to coax his subjects into his netherworld? Why not some dishwater dull barrister?

I really try to talk about the issues and not the personalities involved in her case. I couldn't pick Terri's parents, Michael Schiavo, or Felos out of a lineup. I don't know any of them and I find the demonization of the players to be a distraction.

[SedVictaCatoni]

Those anti-terribots should ask themselves why did it take a creep like George Felos to counsel this to fruition, a guy who unashamably acts like an Erl-King trying to coax his subjects into his netherworld? Why not some dishwater dull barrister?

I see that you're familiar with the principle of a straw man, but I really must congratulate you on the use of the term "Erl-King". It's really high time we had some fresh invectives around here - the old cliches are getting so dull.

[syriacus]

I had to memorize lines from Goethe's eerie poem, Der Erlenkoenig in High school

Wer reitet so spaet durch Nacht und Wind?
Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind.
Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm,
Er fasst ihn sicher, er haelt ihn warm. [snip]
In seinen Armen das Kind war tot.

In the poem, the father keeps assuring his son that there is nothing to fear. In the end, his son is dead in his arms.

Felos's tongue-flicking assurances that Terri felt no pain were most likely untrue.
Felos not only made sure Terri died, he made sure she died in a horrible way.