[supercat]

The Solomonic thing to do, IMHO, would be to offer the following proposal: the feeding tube is removed, and the parents forbidden from reinsering it, but Terri would be left with her parents who would be allowed and encouraged to attempt (with whatever professional assistance they selected) to give her oral food and hydration.

I do not think Michael would accept such a proposal, but it would be interesting for him to articulate reasons for refusing it. If Terri is as totally incapacitated as he claims her to be, oral feeding and hydration would not extend her life appreciably. And if he's correct in his belief that she's brain-dead, she shouldn't mind one way or the other who provides care in her last days.

I wonder what specific objections Michael would offer to such a proposal?

[Theodore R.]

I do not think Michael would accept such a proposal, but it would be interesting for him to articulate reasons for refusing it.

This has already been proposed and rejected by Michael R. Schiavo. He wants "the bitch" dead; what is it about this that people cannot "understand"?