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You know, Oceanperch, I wasn't going to post a reply on this thread because I find the whole thread so irritating, but your comments have forced me to do so. You speak as if you are the brother, father, mother of this woman. You're not. You don't know what motivates her husband, but you assume he a) probably murdered her, based on no facts at all, b) that he is "doing this for the money", claiming that you know this because you met him once, and therefore know all, and c) that Teri would be just fine if only she was home with her parents, and getting therapy, even though she has been in a vegetative state for the past, what is it, 13 years? And that somehow her lingering on is "her choice". Her choice? She's not capable of making one. And then to claim that her husband is "living in sin" with a woman, when the reason he can't remarry is because his wife has been in a vegetative state for all these years and he therefore can't get a divorce. Geez, what a catch 22 for this poor guy. My dad was in such a vegetative state from a stroke, and my mom was asked to make a decision as to whether to take him off life support or not (he had a strong heart that kept beating, even though his brain was dead). If he hadn't have been taken off life support, he would have died from the tube they had to put down his throat, and the eventual pneumonia it would produce. Now, this woman isn't in a coma, she just, brainwise, as was my dad, isn't there. Her physical shell is being kept alive, but she is gone. I know this isn't a valid comparison, except for in it's bizarreness, but it's like Ted Williams being kept on ice so his DNA could be cloned further down the road to produce more great baseball players. A concept not based in reality. I think it equally incredibly bizarre that this woman's parents want to cling on for year after year nursing a brain dead body. There's something real unhealthy about this, and equally not based in reality. Each to their own opinion, but I think these parents need some therapeutic help. They should have let go of this long, long ago. Life can be cruel, as it was to their daughter, but I think it is equally cruel to prolong her physical agony low these many years to satisfy their own psychological needs, unhealthy ones at best.

All I support is her right to life as she chooses.

All that disagree have a right to post their opinion.

You wrote, " ... when the reason he can't remarry is because his wife has been in a vegetative state for all these years and he therefore can't get a divorce." Sadly, you're spouting off without full information. And the death protocol I addressed in my #162 post is quite applicable to your father's state and to Terri's. Incidentally, I have researched the 'detective work' done at the time Terri was hospitalized so many years ago. Because of the rush of activity occurring in her area at that time, her case was not fully investigated and there were credible charges that her husband (who had abused her previously) might have been directly responsible for her hypoxia. And no, I'm not related to her or her scumbag husband who refuses to divorce her and split the insurance proceeds with her next caregivers (her parents, if the 'judge' had an alive heart).

Incidentally, you assert that Terri is in agony. Does that mean you believe she is in pain and can understand it to be pain? Does that mean that you believe she is a mental agony and thus sentient at a level she cannot express? You might want to tighten up your defense of this court-ordered execution, if you're gonna post at FR.

You criticized Oceanperch because she behaves like a family member of Terri Schiavo's. She belongs to a religions that teaches us that we are all brothers and sisters, and that human life is sacred at all of its stages.

This is a lengthy thread and there have been previous ones. I really can't add much, except to say this: please try to consider the expressed religious beliefs of others before you respond to them.

One million dollars is a very powerful motive for lying, and for the commission of murder. Although the testimony of Terri's husband and two other family members claims that Terri would have refused medical treatment in a situation like this one, their million-dollar motive for lying must also be taken into consideration.