Reply #56: Not sure why you responded to my post...

[Misunderestimator]

But since you shared your story, allow me. My mother suffered from multiple sclerosis since I was three. In her case, it was a very quickly progressive disease and within 10 years of the diagnosis, she was mainly bedridden. Somewhere during that time, she did sign a living will expressing that she would not want to be kept alive in a PVS state, and I believe that she and my father may have had an agreement to help her along the way in the event that anyone should stop them.

She suffered for another 13 years becoming more and more disabled, she was catheterized and could not go to the bathroom or bathe herself. We care for her at home. Not a day went by that she was not in tears and wished that she did not have to live that way. She finally passed away in her sleep one night after a bout with pneumonia.

I would NEVER betray her wishes to die with some shred of dignity and to not be kept alive when there is no life or hope of recovery left.

The OP was not asking if we should defend someone's right to die who has made those wishes known. It is accusing those of us defending Terri's husband's rights, of saying that NO one should have the right to be kept alive in such a manner. Of course, that is the individual's will, not ours. Hit and run.