If she is as bad off as the other side would have us to believe, she would likely die anyhow under their care,
Perhaps the bum information about this is local rather than national. <g> Reports are that she is quite healthy and could live as she is for a long time.
I cant see what the big deal is with that. Wont cost the state anything.
Cost is not an issue, best I can tell, at least not the cost of maintaining her in her current state. The "big deal" is the disrespect for her interests in the matter, however ambiguous they may be.
If she is really a vegetable, then I suppose there isn't any harm to her in keeping her alive because she's too out of it to have any self-awareness and vegetables don't know pain. The corelary to that, though, is that, as a vegetable, she's not going to get any better as her parents apparently expect. If, OTOH, she is self aware and doesn't want to live like that, then she's being tortured. I'd say that torture constitutes harm.
It's hard to find the probability of a good outcome for Terri in them taking her home. The only way there's a good outcome is if she gets well enough to live outside her head or if she somehow enjoys the monotony of decades trapped in an unmanageable body for decades. |
