I have read most of this thread and found it very interesting and informative, I have not followed this situation entirely, so some of the revelations here were suprising.

In all honesty I cannot see how anyone could find the parents selfish, as a parent I fully understand where they are coming from, and I also find it terrible that the husband has more rights than the parent, who carried that baby, gave birth and nutured her to womanhood, he is merely a stranger she fell in love with and married, of course he has rights, but it should be equal IMO.

The media hype does so much damage, one never knows what to believe about her husband, one can only say that the parents have no alterior motives, how could they? but that he possibly could.

I have mixed emotions on this one, I think if it were me I would let my child die, but then I also strongly believe no-one really knows until faced with this situation.

One positive thing about this, it has got people talking within their families , making live wills, expressing their wishes, my son said to me the other day, he would not under any circumstances wish to live if he were like Terri, that is something I would have to consider lord forbide it ever happened to my family.

It is a sad situation all over, and one can only feel compassion and sadness for all concerned.

It does sound so cruel to starve her to death, but some are saying it is painless, however my thoughts are How do they really know this? it is always in the back of my mind, yes we are kinder to our pets and let them die quickly and with dignity.

I felt horrified to think they may try at this stage to revive her (correct me if I am wrong in this understanding) if the parents won their appeal, would that in itself not be cruel, if even possible.