If you would have read Christopher Reeve’s book, you would know that his mother was fighting him and his wife to pull the respirator on him. She didn’t think it was right for a young man who lived life so fully, to have to live unmovable and on a breathing machine.
She was wrong. Reeve still had a lot of living to do. It was NOT what he wanted, to die. Even though her idea would have seemed to be what Reeve would have wanted.
Even our closest relatives can not speak to our true desires on life...how could you speak for Terri?
Terri had the right to life, under the United States Constitution. She was valuable to her family, friends and strangers like me.
She did not do anything to deserve such a cruel death sentence; such a torturous death. She deserved to be protected from cruelty, not killed by the politicians like King for political gain.
I couldn’t agree more with you both. I was almost physically ill during her days-long (or was it weeks?) “death watch.” It really hit me that our country had come to THIS—shades of Nazi Germany. I felt I was living in the twilight zone as I imagined police, who are charged to “protect,” being stationed outside her door, barring even her own parents from entering. Like King, ALL who had a hand in her death will also one day die. But will THEIR deaths be without hydration, nourishment, and loving family?