I am just wondering?
Actually, I almost died.....
I was born in 1957 and I was fat and happy... 8lb
then, I got fed and I puked and got fed and puked and then got fed and puked....
by 10 days, I was half the weight.
I had, Pyloric Stenosous [sic], the Nurse who was caring for my 2 week old body, had her son die of the same thing a month or two earlier. I was lucky, I got sliced open and cured and to this day... every Nurse and Doc asks,
what?
At any rate, here I alive and well.
I always wanted her to live, but what is living?
"I always wanted her to live, but what is living?"
What if people had decided that you would never become healthy and vital and wouldn't have bothered to save you?
Nobody knows what Terri would have wanted, but if she may show awareness and her parents want to have her with them and take care of her, why should one allow her husband, who may have caused her condition, have the right to pull the plug, just by claiming, without any evidence, that Terri wouldn't want to live like this.
If her parents were her guardians, they would just quietly take care of her. This is NOT a right to live or a "right to die" issue, because we have NO evidence that Terri wanted to die. It's really the issue of a greedy husband, who may have murdered Terri, wanting her to die, to make sure she wouldn't get well, and reveal his crime.
What reasonable person wouldn't just step aside? Terri's parents offered that he can keep the money, he should just let them take care of Terri. Apparently someone offered him $10M and recently $1M, to just step aside, and he won't.
He certainly is NOT devoted to Terri, he's had a girlfriend and some children from this girlfried.
There are only two reasons: he is just so incredibly evil, as to defy imagination or that he did indeed try to kill her, which is how she ended up in this condition, and he doesn't want to take any chances of her recovering any of her faculties and let the world know, how he tried to kill her in the first place.
What does she do that isn't life like? She doesn't hold a job, she doesn't speak at the level that one without an injury does, her husband (I use that term loosely) has with held the physical therapy that could have allowed her to walk again someday. She breathes, she smiles, she loves, she is loved, what else matters?
You are asking for a reply from a person that has lost her language skills. I am a person who has lost a lot of other skills, but I can eat and I can talk. And even though my husband's insurance and his income keep me alive, I am still your dependent. No, I have not requested governmental assistance - even though I qualify for it, but I still drive up the cost of health insurance.
When my Dad had esophageal cancer he could not eat and was fed by a tube. Perhaps you should have cut off his life. The fact of the matter is that he worked even the day he died. He was very lucky none of us tried to put him out of his misery earlier to collect that big life insurance policy.
Living is not lying there waiting for a cruel husband to get the courts to allow him to starve you to death - based on the claim that once she mentioned she would not want to live in that condition.
Her condition would be much better if her family were allowed to care for her, to visit as they wish, to provide her therapy and treatment - which was being denied by the "husband".
Yes, her life could be much better if Michael were out of the picture and taking care of his current common law wife and children and leaving the care of his first wife to those that love her.
He has defaulted on his role as husband (since we don't allow a man two wives at the same time). And, if he has two at the same time - we must not allow him to kill one of them at his discretion - especially since he is no longer the husband - but a bigamist.
But - so many chose to ignore all of Michael's activities and concentrate on allowing him to kill. Why do you think they would do that?
Why do people seem to want the option to kill a spouse based on heresay that the unwanted spouse once said they would not wish to live in such a condition? Looks like free murder to me with the courts blessing. Allows them the option of gaining all the inheritance and being free too - as long as they can get the courts to condone such murder.
What have we fallen to? We use to have morals, dignity, respect for life but now we want to play God and the court given right to remove others who are costly or inconvenient from the living. What wonderful humans we produce nowadays.
And, can you imagine what kind of people we will have in 50 years as we progress along killing all the weaklings, the costly, the inconvenient? What a wonderful life we have then as long as the remaining ones are not weak, costly or inconvenient to those surrounding them. If they become one of the weaker ones - they will be done away with as, of course, those would not wish to live anyway.
A woman in worse shape than Terri comes back from extreme debilitation. And tells us: she KNEW what was happening--even in the worst of circumstances.
This is a question that you are only allowed to answer for yourself - no Terri.
This is a question that you are only allowed to answer for yourself - not Terri.