Not respect. Unconditional love.
I'm struck by the story of the father who had his daughter, Nancy Cruzan (did I spell her name correctly?) starved and dehydrated because "he didn't want to see her wearing a diaper all her life." Contrast that with the effort Terri's parents put in to save her life. Terri can be VERY, VERY proud of them, and of her brother and sister, too. She'll tell them so one day, you know.