[Blast_Master]

Crimany! Let the husband pull the plug already! The parents have no say, she was married to her husband. Is there anyone here who would want to live on a tube in vegetable land? I am making sure my Will states that I am not to be kept alive in such a state. This is disgusting, send her home to God.

[Republican Wildcat]

Quit eating and drinking and you will get your wish. You do consume food and water, don't you? Obviously you are being kept alive by artificial means. Time to stop the madness.

[Republican Wildcat]

If you had had your way, this woman too would be dead

[supercat]

The parents have no say, she was married to her husband.

To suggest that a married man who has moved in with another woman, fathered two children by her, and pledged to marry her should have any authority whatsoever over his wife is to make a mockery of marriage.

[russesjunjee]

And here you have hit up on the most important point of all my friend. Its not Terri's condition or who loves her the most that we all need to be focusing on.

Terri's case is about keeping the choice of life and death in the hands of each individual American.

If you choose to have a living will for yourself stating that you want to be starved and dehydrated to death then hey...thats your choice...This is America, and I say go for it.

But herein lies the danger of Terri's situation that everybody overlooks because they are so freaked out by her physical condition.

Terri did not make this choice. A judge, and a husband, and a lawyer made this choice for her.

Terri's case sets the legal precedence for the choice of life and death to be taken out of the hands of the individual.

Its such a subtle thing, hardly anybody thinks about it because they are all so caught up in the emotional issues surrounding Terri's case.

Terri had no legally binding document stating her end of life wishes. Hence, that choice is being made for her.

This is exactly how euthanasia started in the Netherlands. One simple, precedent setting case, and the choice was removed from the hands people.

It didn't take the courts long to realize that they had gotten away with killing one person who had no will or end of life directives, and that the mechanism to kill more was already in place. Now doctors and judges get to decide who lives and dies over there.

All of you people who want Terri dead better realize that when Terri goes so goes your freedom of choice in this matter.

Do you really want some crack-pot doctor or judge deciding the manner and time of your death? Do you want to be disposed of simply because you are deemed to be a burden on the Government?

If not, then you better wake up and get behind Terri, because all of our futures are riding on what happens to her.

And to answer the question, "who would want to live like that?" Obviously Terri would like to live like that. She has endured more than a decade of mental torture that would have killed a normal person by now. Terri has the will to live, and she is exercising it every day.

[fiesti]

I am making sure my Will states that I am not to be kept alive in such a state. This is disgusting, send her home to God.

Thats fine for you but put it in writing.....Terri left no such writings and we only have the word of her sleezy husband and when Terri collasped tube feedings were not consider life support...I want to know how they grandfathered her in