Well, only God really knows the answer to that. One thing I know for certain, is that God had every chance to end Terri's life and chose NOT to do so.
Somehow to believe that starvation and dehydration are God's "natural" ways to end a person's life, is to have faith in an entirely different kind of God that I know!
God has permitted medical so save many who would have died but a few short years ago.
When Jehovah's Witness followers or even the Amish refuse medical treatment for their family members, the heavy hand of Government steps in and overrides their "choice" to refuse medical help.
Why would the same Government elect to save someone whom their own family chose to let Heaven care for yet in another case, order starvation and dehydration of yet another?
Believe me this was all about money, not about "right to choose" on the part of the family.
That her parents and brother desired her life to continue until God elected to take her and only her greedy husband, who desired to have her out of his life so that he would be free to marry his lover and enjoy what monies he had left out of Terri's settlement, tells me that this was NOT an issue that had anything to do with "family and doctor" advice.
There’s no doubt in my mind a lot of bad stuff went on...and if it’s true Michael will be dealt with by God anyway.
However...while some here want to believe Terri was actually somewhat coherent and knew what was going on, there’s just as much evidence that she was completely vegetative.
That’s the whole reason this is such a hard issue. I don’t think Fred or any other person deserves derision for their opinions on this issue.
Can the government force a JW in the States to have a blood transfusion ? This is a hot topic in Britain at the moment because there are many trying to get the law changed or at least debated on whether it should be changed to allow doctors to give a blood transfusion even if the patient requests this not to be done. This is a result of a young women dying shortly after giving birth where she refused a transfusion and the doctors states this decision caused her death.