[MHGinTN]

You wrote, "If you consider being imprisoned in a hospital bed, taking your nourishment through a tube, and being helpless to even move a finger as "life" ..." Strela, you appear to be missing the point. Terri is imprisoned because her guardian 'husband' will not allow her to have any of the rehabilitation therapy that was paid in advance to the tune of $750,000 into a trust fund! He will not allow her to be taken outside, to be taken to a McDonalds, to be given therapy for her legs and arms and back muscles. HE has created the imprisonment. Now, with the direct aid of an incompetent judge who has business ties to the atty representing Michael Schiavo in this effort to have Terri executed via dehydration, Terri is to be 'put down' because she cannot function in the way she very well might have if the husband and judge had allowed ... no, strike that ... if the husband and the judge had not forbidden the therapy she so needed and for which Michael Schiavo won a palpractice lawsuit to pay for!

So you see, 'imprisoned in a hospital bed, taking nourishment through a tube, and being helpless' is the purposed state her husband has achieved through the abuse of neglect and willful withholding of therapy that was paid for!

[MarMema]

Just another worshipper of the god of autonomy.....

[strela]

Strela, you appear to be missing the point. Terri is imprisoned because her guardian 'husband' will not allow her to have any of the rehabilitation therapy that was paid in advance to the tune of $750,000 into a trust fund!

And you have missed MY point - that it is unfortunate that she did not have a Living Will on file to tell the rest of us what to do if this sort of thing happened to her. If she had that simple little piece of paper and signature on file somewhere, she could have stayed hooked up to a tube for the rest of her life (or until the trust fund ran out) and nobody could have done anything about it.

[sfRummygirl]

Thank you! The voice of reason...