I just clicked down to the last comment and saw your nasty comment. I don't know if Peach has had loss in her family, but I certainly have, no, I have not pulled anyone's plug, but then we never had plugs put in. No, I don't want to prolong the vegetative life of anyone who will never recover consciousness.
I shake my head at all the meanness, nastiness and venom from the side who claims to be the 'good' people. You should be ashamed of yourself. You don't care a twit about the actual people involved in really hard medical situations, only your own preening pride in how righteous you are. Well, let me tell you, actually having it happen to you is agony. No matter what treatment options are available. For you to sit on the sidewalk and throw rocks at grieving people is reprehensible. Have you ever claimed to be Christian?
You are the LAST person I would want involved in my medical decisions, or any in my family. I would want people who can ~think~, not just hiss agenda driven venom at other people about decisions you shouldn't be involved in. You are meddling in the decisions of other people you should have no right to be involved in.
It's been disturbing, hasn't it, Hair? Painful for those who have made similar decisions.
You should have seen the front pages of our newspaper for weeks during this time. Filled with people who had made similar decisions, quietly, without fanfare but with great pain, who were now being called murderers.
As we get older, we've all faced these painful decisions whether to even start the life saving process with machines and once started, how long to permit it to continue. Thankfully we all trust each other in this family to handle the matter with care and love and trust.
How else could you know?
Yet ready to starve or dyhydrate. No sense letting your mom or dad, or son or daughter or spouse linger on, eh? No hope at all.
Those who are struggling over whether they were right to pull the plug on a terminally ill relative are right to fear government intervention but Terri's case was different and that distinction is vitally important.
Terri was not terminal and it was unfair for anyone to put guilt on others for their decisions to let their already dying family members go.
I think the tactic was inhuman myself and meant to pull people into an argument for Terri's death when they might not otherwise have done it.
This was play on peoples emotions big time and very wrong.