Everyone - and I mean everyone - who I have spoken to now agrees with me that Terri ought to have had a new finding of fact. Many of them were not remotely aware of all the contortions and distortions by the press and the judge. Many of them did not agree with me before I discussed it with them, and many were vehement in disagreement to begin with, but found they were quite unaware of what had really happened.
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They didn't want to know because that would have required them to actually think and deny them the opporunity to mouth off platitudes and emotional vindictives.
Once her death is fait accompli the chemical imbalance in their feeble brains subside and some rational thought again gets through. But always too late.
It's pretty much the same on any issue be it Social Security, tax rates, education spending, etc.