I don't know about you but I don't want to kill someone not knowing for sure if it was the right thing to do. That's not something I'd rather explain to God.
As for delusional thinking, people in as bad of shape as her have recovered before. Such things are called miracles and they do on occasion happen. Not that you'll see something like that on the nightly news since it doesn't fit into their nice little worldview.
Really? Please show us some evidence of any case where a patient has regrown brain cells. Medical science says that can't happen, so I'll be interested in your response and totally prepared to admit that I and medical science are wrong.
According to her attending physicians who had been treating her for months, Terri was in a persistent vegetative state, pretty much the same as Karen Ann Quinlan. With the large number of brain cells that had been destroyed, she had zero chance of recovery. Terri had commented years earlier after seeing a documentary about Karen Ann Quinlan that she wouldn't want to live like that, and if she ever ended up in that situation that her family should "pull the plug." The court ruled that her wishes should be respected.
The Schiavo case opened a large rift between members here at Free Republic, and I don't understand why. I've always understood that conservatism meant that the "nanny state" that regulates your life from cradle to grave is a bad thing, and that we should move toward a smaller government that interferes as little as possible with a person's life. And yet I saw members of my own party trying to pass a law that overturned what Terri had stated to be her end of life choice.
The best thing about the Schiavo case is that it will motivate millions of people to write living wills, to establish their end of life choices in writing so there will be no question about what they want. And the worst thing about the case is that members of my own Republican party thought that they could override Terri's personal decision about how she wanted to end her life.
I used to call myself a Barry Goldwater Republican. I'm not even sure what that means any more. Maybe I'm the only one left.