JFPdude

Bringing back terri wouldn't bring back terri. I just had this discussion with my wife. People hear certain facts and then base an opinion.

If you listen to all the facts the picture is much different. He exhausted all efforts of getting her help. When the doctors pretty much told him in 1996 all hope was lost thats when he started the fight to have her wishes taken care of.

The thing is both sides have their issues. The law was not clear with both sides from the beginning. If the family was told up front the husband has the right to make the decisions then this wouldn't have drug on like it did.

Instead greedy doctors and lawyers jumped in promising the family the world and building their hopes up. What parent would not fight to the very end for their child? I know I would.

And so long as these doctors and lawyers kept building up false hopes in her parents thats where it turned for the worse. Micheal had accepted his wife wasn't going to be anything but a vegtable her parents held on to the hopes of doctors and lawyers that made lots of money keeping her alive.

I keep hearing starved to death. Yes her feeding tube was pulled but she hadn't eaten anything in years. No water passed her lips to drink in years. My wife was confused on this also till she just seen a few more interviews and realized that this woman hasn't had real food since the whole thing began.

The parents played on the sympathy of the world by bringing the media into it. Like I say I don't fault them. Anybody would rightfully fight for their own child. But this was all thrown out of purportion by doctors and lawyers that was feeding the family false hope.

The mother claimed she was responding. Well when desperate times happen we all look for a response in a loved one. And we also assume every move is a response because we want to think that our loved one did respond to us.

The truth in this whole case was drug through the mud. It's a shame but it brought much awareness to this issue. How many people have living wills today that didn't have them last month?

She should be remembered as someone who woke the world up to whats legal in these situations. Myself I always assumed the parents would have more rights than the spouse. I for one learned thats not true.

To me she died peacefully the way she wanted to. Thats the way I see the evidence. I could be wrong. I wasn't there to hear everything. And anybody else with an opinion can think what they want because unless they were there thats all they have to is an opinion.