Her parents loved her and wanted to care for her. THAT is the point. Obviously, her husband had stopped loving her a long time ago. A parent's love is unconditional.
Children don't exist to make their parents happy.
Children are the future of our nation and they have their own lives. They have their own destiny to live out and no parent should keep their child just for the parent's own pleasure.
Terri was her own person and her parents had no right to step in and take her rights as a separate person away from her.
No good parent wants their child to exist with a liquified brain and no eyesight. A good parent would put their child's needs before the parents own selfish wants. A good parent would want what's best for their child. Not want their child to exist to make the parents happy.
Happiness is found within a person.
I laid in a coma for a time in my life due to an accident. If I was in a perpetual vegetative state, I would want it stopped. My parents would have wanted the same thing.
The only reason Terri's body survived that long was modern medicine. If feeding tubes didn't exist, Terri would have been laid to rest years before 2005.
She had no living will. End of story. If anything, her parents would have HER best interests at heart, and what would be wrong with letting them take her home? I notice none of you can answer that. If Terry was truly "brain dead" she wouldn't be aware of whether she was alive or dead anyways, so it really doesn't matter to HER. What is wrong with letting her parents take her home, care for her, and if they think it is best to let her go, than let them decide that on their own time. There was absolutely NO hurry.
Yes she had no living will so the government of Florida did the legal and right thing by giving guardianship of her to her husband. Not her parents.
It seems to me you keep advocating for the law to be violated and I don't understand why.
Children aren't property of their parents. No parent owns their kids and no parent has any control or right to control their children once that child reaches the age of 18.
What is wrong with handing her over to her parents is that it would have been a violation of court orders and illegal. Do you understand that when a judge rules and orders something that it must be followed or you have broken the law? Do yo understand that when two people get married they're committed to each other and the parents have absolutely no right to tell their child what to do or where they should live? That it's the spouse's job to do that when the other can't? That's one of the benefits of marriage. That a person gets to choose who they trust to make the best decisions for them when they can't. The court in Florida followed the law.
You are advocating for people to violate the law.
No I am not. She had no living will. It would have hurt nobody. However, Terry was in pain when she died. Your side did hurt someone.
Yes she had no living will. That doesn't mean her parents can just kidnap her and take over her life. It means that the courts of Florida make the decision on who takes care of her. The court chose her husband. After all it was Terri who actually chose him by marrying him. If she didn't want him to have that responsibility she would not have married him.
It would have hurt our court system because we have law and order in America. Parents can't just barge in and take over their adult children's lives. Especially when that adult is married. Do you understand that people have to follow the law? The law was followed right down to the letter and you still moan and groan. Because the law isn't on your side.
You have no idea if she felt pain or not. You aren't her, you weren't with her when she died and you have absolutely no medical training or experience.
"My" side is the side of the law. Your side is the side of kidnapping people who can't defend themselves or make their own decisions. Which is probably one of the lowest things possible. Taking advantage of a person in her condition is disgusting. Yet you still advocate for her to have been kidnapped and forced to remain in that state for an undetermined amount of time. What happens when her parents die and she's still alive? Or when her parents can't take care of her properly? You don't think things through. Just like all far right wing crazy people.
Posting lies just shows how ignorant you are of the law, medicine and science.
I'm done with you. Don't bother to reply to this because I'm not going to read it. You have no respect for our laws, our justice or court system. I don't waste my time with such people. If you want anarchy and people to have the right to illegally kidnap their kids you might want to choose to live in a different nation. Things like that aren't allowed to happen here in America.
Have a nice day.