Say that someone suddenly comes into your face, and announces to you that you're going to die. Do you (1) react with blissful thoughts of passing away years hence in your peaceful old age at that point? Or do you (2) react with the horror that here's someone about to kill you? Which thought would take less thought to conjure up, would be more gut level? Surprise, surprise, it's #2.
Oh, I agree with #2.
But what you said before is that she is consious able to understand and interact with her parents, laugh at jokes, follow a ballon around the room.
Then you say she can't comprehend the idea of feeding tubes.Is she PVS or not?
What I think is that you do not think she should be staved to death and with that I agree.
However, you can't make a convincing agruement that whe is not PVS.
Now the real question comes down to whether or not you think being PVS is a valid reason to be allowed to die or killed in this case.
Clearly you and I would both say that it is not.
So the whole problem comes down to the fact that she did not put in writting her wishes if such a situation where to occur.
So all we have is her husbands word that in fact it was her desire not to be kept alive under these circumstances. Which someone has stated hearsay is not good enough under Florida law.
What a mess.
I'll keep Terri and the rest of her family in my prayers.