The fact is if this woman had a written living will, saying she didn't want to be kept alive by artificial means in a permanent vegetative state, the hospital would be forced to abide by it.
Not using artificial means to extend a person's suffering is not "killing" them in all cases.
It is a common practice for terminally ill cancer patients to be giving increasingly powerful doses of morphine to spare them the suffering of the final stages of their disease.
The morphine in fact usually puts them out of their misery.
Should we withhold the morphine and let them suffer in increasing agony for a another month or so and call this "God's will?"
Nobody here knows what Terri wants, or whether God wants a person in a permanent vegetative state kept alive by a machine for decades or not.
And as for "artificial means," I just had some artificial means for dinner. And they were very good.
Yeah, by killing them. It's called active euthanasia, not natural death.
If you advocate this at least be honest about what you're advocating.
Nourishment isn't artificial.
I guess that meanings Christopher Reeves should be unplug, because that is the only thing keeping him alive
She's not vegetative (see the video and use your common sense).
Her parents report she can swallow and be fed...and therefore may not need the machine at all...but her unfaithful husband will not allow it.
Her husband is clearly not focused on Terri's best interest. He has changed his stance radically after he had acess to a lot of money and he has not been true to her. If he felt compelled to leave her for this other woman...why didn;t he divorce her then and let the parents take care of their daughter that he no longer wanted.
So...clearly there is doubt, great doubt about what Terri wants...and in such cases you err on the side of life.
That's what Bush did...that's what the state legislature did...and now that is what is going to happen.
...and I AM thankful to God for it.
Well I know what God's Son said "by their fruits ye shall know them", and all the death-loving ghouls are so incredible easy to pick out by what they say and do. So please, don't make me laugh, trying to say that possibly these devilish people are on the side of "God"!
If God wants to call someone home, none can stop him. Keeping a soul-less body alive may be an excercise in futility, but if the soul's not in the body I don't think it really matters one way or the other.
This case, however, was not about Terri's "right to die". It was about an attempt to murder Terri for profit.
I can't wait for a guardian ad litem to order an audit of Terri's trust fund. If Michael's been raiding the cookie jar, that would establish a criminal motive for killing Terri. Attempting to kill someone with criminal motive is attempted murder.
Frankly, at this point in the game I'm almost surprised Felos and Greer are still trying to kill Terri. I don't think her death at this point would prevent an investigation into some of what's been going on, and if they're going to get caught it would be better to be convicted of attempted murder than murder in the first degree.
Though admittedly that may be irrelevant if my other suspicions about Felos and Greer are correct. Methinks Terri isn't the first person they've murdered for profit--just the first one who refused to die like she was supposed to.
It may very well be a blessing she did NOT leave a written living will. Felos and dear hubby would have killed her the day after the malpractice settlement. Hubby has been known to enter her room exclaiming, "Isn't the b-- dead yet?" and Felos says she died 13 years ago and a house plant. Another thing, she is NOT in a permanent vegetative state, or at least wasn't until possibly after being off fluids for 6 days. And lastly, most people don't consider a mere feeding tube as being kept alive by artificial means. At one time she was able to swallow but hubby put a stop to that. A feeding tube falls into a medical aid category much like dialysis which is quite different from a ventilator.
She was breathing on her own. No "machine" was keeping her alive. And she was not in a "permanent vegetative state". Disabled people are not vegetables.