I had an uncle who was in a coma for a number of weeks. When he awoke, he had difficulty swallowing, so they attached a feeding tube. He lived an otherwise productive life for a few years before he died as a result of a fall. No one even considered killing him when he was in a coma, or of removing his feeding tube when he came out of it.
However, if they allow Terri to die without at least running the proper tests, anyone who is incapacitated in any way is in danger of being killed off, either for money, or simply because they've become inconvenient.
You don't think in 15 freaking years they've done every single test known to man? There was a malpractice suit, for God's sake. That woman has probably gone through more testing than anyone ever deserves to.
Precisely. This country already kills babies who are 'inconvenient.' Now many are advocating killing adults who are.
If these heroic measures to save Terri fail, this country will have fallen farther away from it's founding principles of morality and life, and we will be in great danger of losing more than just this one precious life.....
A fundamental difference: Some people try to be optimistic. They hope-against-hope. Other people tend to be skeptical. They give up. Sure, being positive can appear foolish sometimes. People like Columbus, George Washington, Doolittle, MacArthur, Lincoln, Ghandi, and Daniel. Some positive people fail completely. But there's one thing that unites us, we give it the old, college try.