Terry Shiavo

My instinctive opinion on the Terri Schiavo case is that they should let her off the hook. Yea, I meant that pretty literally. The woman is so far gone from life, with only her brain stem still functioning. By definition, she is still "alive", but she is about as alive as a carrot. She can feel and think just about as much as a carrot can. There is no chance of her ever recovering. I feel that for her loved ones, it should be equally painful to keep her "alive" with tubes as it should be to let her go. I think it is wrong to condemn her husband for wanting to let her go, although that is certainly not the sole reason for their condemning him. However, even if it were true that the husband caused her condition (which is speculative, as far as I know), she should not be kept "alive" out of revenge or spite. It has also been ruled that Terri's intention would have been to choose death over an irreversibly vegetative state. Terri would not have consented to "the medical indignities and bodily invasions that have defined her condition." The fact of the matter is, Terri Schiavo lives in a vegetative state with no hope of recovery. When one's daughter is so far gone from life, is it not somehow more cruel to keep her clinging to so-called "life" in such a state?