[Mr. Silverback]

Your point is well taken. However, the thing about the Terri trial that's scary is not that a woman who might have recovered was allowed to die, it's that half-remembered daced-old conversations were taken as equivalent to a solid living will. That's already scary stuff before you Add in the fact that this was done to keep her in the custody of a guardian who was unfit on several levels.

[socialismisinsidious]

half-remembered daced-old conversations were taken as equivalent to a solid living will.

That is so true. Around the time that Terri was killed my husband and I got a lower mortgage rate....we had to sign in front of a notary in 9 different places and all we were doing was saving ourselves money.

[samtheman]

Certainly her husband had no compelling reason to deny her parents to take over her care. If, indeed (as I believe), she really was already dead, what would be the harm in letting the parents take care of the still breathing body? Only a real low-life would have denied them that.