We care for the profoundly retarded, people born with NO cognitive ability whatsoever, provide them with therapists, teachers, nurses, caretakers, and doctors, even when it is clear that NO amount of attention is ever going to make them get better. There are tens of thousands of these people living in hospitals all over the country. Since they won't get better, should we stop wasting the money on them and starve them to death? (The major difference between them and Terri being that they were born that way, while she wasn't.)
Did I bring into the discussion *wasting* money and *starve to death*?