I know that some of you may take this the wrong way and I'll be flamed like I died and went to he**.
But I just want to look on the other side of the coin. Suppose my directive says that I want hydration and a feeding tube and all the life saving options I can have. Now, my family doesn't want to see me suffering like that and decides to override my wishes and have me removed.
Don't I want the same steadfastness in that respect as seems to be in this case? Do I really want my wishes to be overridden by well meaning relatives and a blind justice court system?
I know, I know, Terri did not have written instructions, but the point I am trying to make is that I want the courts and the family to have their hands tied and my wishes be the ones that are tantamount.
I'm not looking at this from Terri's point of view, I am looking at it from a societal point of view.
Precisely, so stop wasting everyone's time with meaningless and irrelevant hypotheticals.