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You're leaving out far too many inconvenient details, Brandon. It isn't a "case" - Terri's a person, a human being. Have you bothered to watch the video? The court-appointed doctors claim Terri's reponse to stimuli is 'reflex' - her own mother SEES her daughter respond. Thirteen other doctors disagreed with the doctors who claimed there was no hope. Others who have been in similar states - and recovered - are fighting for Terri, too.

Sorry, there is no second chance here. If this Judge and this husband aren't weighing all evidence - Terri has no hope.

The Governor can pardon a condemned murderer on death row. Terri, helpless and innocent, gets no independent guardian? No one's keeping her husband from divorcing her. NO ONE. Her own mother wants to care for her. Where is the justice?

Sorry, but I cannot agree with you. Did the thirteen other doctors examine her? My understanding is that there was a specific panel of five who did, within the past year, and that the majority of them made the findings I describe. I am gravely skeptical of any physician who will offer an opinion on a patient they have not personally examined, and reviewed the medical history of.

And much as I feel for Mrs. Schiavo's parents, it is a widely known phenomenon for people in this situation to "see" things that are not really there, because they wish so desperately for it to be true.

Finally, yes, I've seen the videos. But you cannot tell just from watching a few seconds or minutes of videotape what a patient's true status is, and anyone who tells you they can is a charlatan, even if they have "M.D." after their name.

I am not qualified to judge Terri Schiavo's medical condition, even if I had the opportunity to examine her. I doubt that very many people on this thread are -- possibly none of us are. The one thing I do know is that this situation has been going on for more than a decade. Many judges have looked into it. Physicians appointed by the court have examined her, and rendered their opinions, and now the courts have determined that Mrs. Schiavo's closest living relative is acting appropriately.

This sort of thing happens in every state in the union, every single day. We can keep a human body "alive" with its heart beating and its lungs pushing air for a very long time after the person who inhabited that body is no longer there. There comes a time when someone has to decide that everything that can be done has been done. It is always a hard decision, and it is made immensely harder when family members of the patient are in conflict, as Mr. Schiavo is obviously in conflict with his wife's parents. But he is the one with the ultimate legal right to make the decision, and this has been tested in a grueling, ten year court battle. It's over, and it's time to let this poor woman rest in peace.