It all depends on whether or not you believe in Living Wills.
If you don't believe that an individual has the right to specify what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves, then dehydrating and starving Terri was the wrong and illegal thing to do.
Do you believe in Living Wills?
Did Terri sign a Living Will?
IIRC, Terri never signed a living will. There was only her estranged husband’s claim - and he lacks credibility and had vested interests, including a live in mistress.
My belief or lack thereof in living wills has NOTHING to do with ANYTHING because Terri didn't have one. NOBODY ever suggested that she did. Besides, living wills are for people who are dying, Terri's autopsy proved that she would have lived another forty years.
If you don't believe that an individual has the right to specify what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves, then dehydrating and starving Terri was the wrong and illegal thing to do.
Terri NEVER specified that she wanted to be murdered.
Terri's estranged "husband" decided to murder her. Terri screamed in horror when she was told that the feeding tube was being removed, multiple FReeper WHO WERE THERE have told me that.
Do you believe in Living Wills?
Belief in living wills has as little to do with Terri's case as belief in Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny.