He doesn't want to live with her that way is the way I see that. We don't really have any way of knowing what she wants. Even if she had made some casual comments, without specifics, she would have had little understanding of the ramifications of what taking them literally would mean. The other awful thing is that even people who make living wills, once they get into the middle of what they willed for themselves, may have an abrupt change of mind and there is no way out if they have cognition remaining but can't communicate.
If a person is truly near the very end of a terminal illness, I might view the situation a little differently; still it seems cruel to withhold nutrition and water.
Maybe I shouldn't say it, but if Terri were to miraculously wake up and see what she was in the middle of, she could very well become suicidal and require another kind of therapy for the rest of her life because of the betrayal. You don't get over that kind of betrayal.
On the other hand, maybe she would forgive him. Who knows?
If there really is a judgement day, it ought to be interesting. This could be God's way of testing people (not that God caused it), to see how they will play the hand they've been dealt. I would expect the Schindlers to pass with flying colors.
It's hard to predict what would happen.
Another abortion issue that attracted national attention involved an Upper Brookville man who sought to terminate his comatose wife's pregnancy to improve her chances for recovery.Nancy Klein, who was 17 weeks pregnant, was in a deep coma after sustaining head injuries in a 1988 auto accident. Two Long Island anti-abortion groups sued for legal guardianship of the woman and her fetus in an effort to block the abortion. After a panel of judges ruled against the activists as "absolute strangers" to the Kleins and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to stop the procedure, the abortion was performed. Nancy Klein partially recovered.
In a less-than-happy ending, her husband, Martin, sued for divorce in 1991.