[GovernmentShrinker]

Whether she's aware of her surroundings or not is difficult to establish -- videos taken a couple of years ago suggest that she was then, but that could have changed in the interim. Her parents and siblings are willing to care for her at home, and since she requires only feeding, this isn't much expense. She has a medical trust fund of over $1 million from a malpractice suit. Her husband is eager to get his hands on that money, which will go to him when she dies.

I'm in favor of euthanasia when proper safeguards are in place, but this case is loaded with conflicts of interest and suspicious details -- like how the husband suddenly remembered that Terri had said she didn't want to be kept alive artificially, just AFTER the $1 million+ malpractice award was won; and how he was insisting that she be cremated immediately after her death, though many questins remain about broken bones she may have sustained at his hands.

[tarheal]

Don't kid yourself-- an adult who requires full custodial care takes a tremendous amount of work, and it is very expensive. She needs a very expensive hospital bed. She has to be turned every 2 hours or so, cleaned and bathed, taken to doctors occasionally. The feeding tube will clog occasionally, may get infected. A million $ isn't all that much in this setting and is probably mostly gone after all the care she has required over the past decade, not to mention the legal bills.

Do you really want your state legislature to make medical decisions concerning your care at the end of your life?