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Thanks summer!
For posting this thread and adding your "freeper weight" to the support of Terri Shiavo.
I held the medical power of attorney for my former husband for many years after our divorce.
His wishes, should he ever become incapable of stating them,was to exhaust all medical care, and then to cling on, as a comatose "vegatable", as long as humanly and finacially possible.He so loved life!
I, in turn, trusted him with the same but opposite power, should I ever be declared brain dead, by competent medical sources, I wished to avoid any extreme medical efforts to prolong my physical existance.
I knew he would probably not accept my death, as long as there was a single thread of hope that I might recieve a miracle.
I forgave him in advance, for what I knew he would actually do, should I actually endure his worst nightmare.
Absent written or widely known instructions,it is impossible to ascertain what Terri wants, in her condition.
It is obvious that her parents want her to continue to exist.
It is not so clear why her "husband" is adament that she ceases to exist, as soon as possible, through a court ordered medical euthanasia/murder.
That Terri Shiavo still stubbornly clings to life, despite the immense obstacles her "husband" has orchestrated in the courts, makes me think she is not yet ready to die.
I can understand that, though it would not be my own choice.
I fail to understand why (j)udge Greer is unable to come to the same blatantly obvious conclusion.