Stop Feeding the Bitch - Feed Yourself or Die

[OAS]

My take on the husband is he is sincere. Did Terri ever really say that she wouldn't want to be kept alive this way? We never will know. But if they had a productive and communicative relationship when she was healthy, I believe he could interpret what her wishes would have been. It would have been easier with a living will, but one doesn't exist. Even if one did I would suspect her parents would be fighting it in court. It is always harder for a parent to come to grips with a loss of a child than it is for a spouse.

If I were in her husbands shoes I would do the same thing. At some point you come to the conclusion that you cannot go on any further. You can't deal with the pain anymore. You don't want to see her like that anymore. You can't continue to pay the costs of keeping her alive in the technical sense. You have to weigh often the desire to place a pillow over her head and end it as mercifully as you can.