[DelphiUser]

By putting themselves in her place, they decided to support his decision. The whole thing still grates on my sense of right and wrong.

Interesting, I was in an accident and was paralyzed from the neck down until they put me back together (they said it was permanent at first, didn't even admit that I might get a little better until feeling started coming back...)

I said at the time (Terri's time), I would have wanted someone to pull the plug long ago. I have a living will, if I am ever unconscious for six months with less that 90% chance of recovery, I left instructions to let me go on into my rest. So at least I am consistent when it comes to me being the one to go.

I had all sorts of people telling me I was a bad conservative and part of the "culture of death", they accused me of supporting abortion and all sorts of things, and I kept thinking, who are you guys? and who made you my judge...

[airborne]

I’m glad you’re still with us, FRiend!

[Mom MD]

THere is a huge difference between withdrawing mechanical ventilation and iv therapies to keep the blood pressure up and withholding food and water. Fred’s daughter was a much different situation than Terri Schiavo

I have no problems withdrawing artificial life support, but letting someone die of dehydration is another problem. The half way with Terri’s case would be allowing her family to give her fluids/nourishment by mouth or gastric tube (as was being done) I think anything else is cruel.

[originalbuckeye]

I am not judging people who have made their wishes known. My problem with the Schaivo case was that Michael Schaivo won a judgment for her care after convincing a judge (or jury?) that she wanted to live. Then when the money ran out he decided that she really, really had wanted to die. If people make their wishes known, fair enough. The Schindlers were willing to take care of her. Michael could have simply divorced her. Most people that I know sided with Michael because, if THEY were in Terri’s condition they would want to die. Most people weren’t thinking about what Terri might want. They were thinking about themselves in her situation.

[iowamark]

I said at the time (Terri's time), I would have wanted someone to pull the plug long ago.

The distinction is that there was no plug to be pulled. Terri was not kept alive by any machine. Her death was not natural, it was caused by dehydration and starvation, the withholding of water and nutrition.

[Sloth]

I said at the time (Terri's time), I would have wanted someone to pull the plug long ago.

What plug, exactly? Schiavo wasn't on any life support.