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We see some of it here, though not as much as that site. This is FR afterall. : )

These people are either just plain ignorant or evil. Some are unable to wrap their minds around the facts and issues at stake. Some don't care to. The one's who don't understand are the one's we can change.

So many still just accept the short snippets they are told by the media, a right-to-die case. They dehumanize Terri because of her condition. It's painful to empathize with Terri and easier to discredit her existence by telling themselves that she's merely a 'vegetable'. Some just are cold and callous.

Disabled groups all over should be outraged, as should women's rights groups. Like that'll ever happen. How many times have you read other's thoughts that she should be killed because she's useless? That the money spent on her should be put to better use, on other, better people I suppose. Or the thought that because she's married, the husband basically owns her. Shameful.

We are constantly barraged with arguments that Terri will never recover and that her condition was self-inflicted. We are called ghouls for fighting for her life, called this by people who want to see another starved to death. The pro-death side is throwing around all manner of deceit. It's an attempt to divert attention from the heart of the matter, does a disability render a person less than human in the eyes of the state?

I'm still in shock that the judge ever allowed Felos to be council for Terri. He has an obvious conflict of interest. He's seriously into euthanasia, his personal agenda should squarely place him outside of Terri's best interests. He's mentioned a book on the case, in which his monetary outlook is much brighter should he win by having Terri killed. He was on the board of the hospice that benefits by having her killed at their business. Then we come to his character. Downing planes with his mind, telepathically discerning that the Browning woman wanted to die, making the implication that Terri may have done the same, etc. I can't decide if I think he's just a don't-care-for-the-sanctity-of-life leftist kook, or a would-be Bundy who gets off on his power to have the state do his bidding.

(Sorry for the rambling, been a loooong day.)

I used to hang out on those boards quite a bit (about 2 years). That was before I discovered FR. Now I just check in over there once in a while. I have to agree with you, they are either ignorant or evil, ignorant being the best description for about 50% of them. Then you have the "Rob Bealers", now that person, I believe is evil......take his quote, Rob Bealer 10-28-2003, 12:08 PM Who here would want a dead lump of SOULESS vegetative dead humanity artificially being kept alive, taking up space......

That just p*ssed me off!!!
You are so right about people accepting the drivel that the media dishes out. One of my professors the other day had snipped a column out of the newspaper about how Terri's family needed to let her go...etc. She had the whole class riled up ( mainly teenagers) about how they needed to "unplug the woman". Another lady and myself spoke up and told her some of the things that weren't mentioned in that article like "Terri is NOT in a coma" and how the husband said that he wanted the money in order to become a nurse and take care of Terri, and when he got the money he turned around and put a DNR order on her. There were quite a few things that the professor didn't know and it was obvious. She still wanted to argue that Terri IS in a coma though. Needless to say, the rest of the class piped down.I believe that some of them were ready to lynch Terri's family for letting her live "like that". It upsets me that people tend to just get one side of the argument before they form their opinions as when people listen to the news or these columnists or college professors and take everything that they spit out as pure gospel. I guess that is just human nature though.

Another thing that really stinks about this is those who you mentioned say she will never recover. How do they know! She has NEVER been given the chance from everything that I have read!