Aside from a truly horrible thing happening to this woman, the other thing that makes me said is that the courts had to get involved in the fate of this woman. I don't want some judge deciding whether I live or die, and how.
That said, I can see both sides. I feel it is disgusting that this woman is being dehydrated to death. I don't care if she can feel pain or not (and if she can't, what's with the morphine drip?). Allowing another human being to dehydrate to death is horrendous. If an inmate on death row were found dehydrated to death, there would be a massive investigation and several heads rolling of those "in charge". This woman has committed no crime. Heck, if someone went to a Humane Society and found dogs and cats dehydrated to death, you can't tell me an investigation would be launched there as well. I just cannot grasp why letting Terri dehydrate to death is okay. It isn't. Plain and simple.
Secondly, I get her husband is her legal guardian. But I also feel for the parents. I am not yet a mother, but if my son or daughter were incapacitated and their spouse was making decisions I felt were wrong, I would be upset too! Depending on what those decisions were, I may also fight it in court (depends on the situation). It must be so hard looking at your daughter like that, knowing that YOU gave her life, and now it's up to someone else whether or not it continues. I feel for her parents on that level. Did they take the right course of action? I don't know. I'm not them. I don't think any of us will ever know exactly how they feel, why they feel the way they do, and why they did what they did because we're only getting our information from the media. We're not living it first hand.
Lastly, I find that her husband is a scumbag ONLY on the fact that he has a longtime girlfriend and has children with her. To me, the whole "In sickness and in health, 'Til death do us part" thing means until DEATH do us part. I *can* say that (God forbid), if anything like this were to happen to my husband, I would remain loyal to him until death parted us. Not until I decided it was long enough, I needed to move on and have children by some other person while my husband lay in a hospital somewhere. Absolutely not. So for that reason alone, I find him repulsive.
If in her health, Terri observed Roman Catholic traditions and religion was important to her, she should receive a traditional Roman Catholic burial. I don't know Michael Schiavo's real reasons for opposing that, but it sounds like spite. He should not ignore her faith.
Edited to change "starve" to "dehydrate" for proper medical term usage reasons.
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