Reply #43: As outside observers we don't have enough info to say if this is good or..

[Locut0s]

not. This kind of decision is among the most personal anyone can make. Without having known here personally for a long time there is just no way for us to know who is in the right and who is not. Unfortunately that has never stopped the media from demonizing one side or the other. Parents though they mean well don't always have the best interest of their children in mind, and certainly often don't want to accept their children's views on many issues. But then again the same can be said about spouses. The husband's claim that she had an oral agreement with him that she didn't want to live this way is not enough. However the parent's claims that their daughter really just needs time to heal seems way to optimistic too. This is why this kind of thing should ALWAYS be in writing. As I've said in another post on this topic I think the method of "letting her go", that is removing her feeding tube, is very cruel and from that point of view I understand it when people say she should be kept alive. However I am definitely not on the side of those arguing from a semi religious, "life is so precious it is preferable to suffering" point of view. Personally if I were in such a situation I would want someone to give me an overdose of pain killers, or even shoot me in the head, anything but a slow death by starvation.