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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.