You say that Terri is now with the Lord, “a much better place”, yet you say you are sad. For what? That Terri is now with the Lord in a much better place? You would rather she suffer the rest of her life in the state she was in?

I’m trying to understand why millions of people are so engrosed with one person when many many people are being killed in Iraq. Both our soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

Plus, where were all these millions when the 6 month old baby was “murdered” in Texas not long ago.

Personally, Terri and her situation is none of my business, not to mention the business of the millions of people that is making her their business including all the media that is making money off her situation.

Secondly, her husband caused her suffering by all his efforts to kill her. That’s what I wanted stopped. If she had received the care she needed from those who loved her self-LESS-ly, she would have been blessed and would have continued to blessed others. With proper care, she wouldn’t have been suffering.

Nonetheless, you may not be able to understand. I am sad that we failed to save Terri - that we (Americans) have failed to save so many from horrible murders all over the world. That we in America are so damn selfish as to impose our own highfalutin’ opinion on someone else’s “quality” of life just because its uncomfortable to look at and because were too damn lazy and narcissistic to GIVE of our own time and energy to care properly for others. A person’s quality of life is not determined by physical, mental capabilities. It’s determined by the quality of the relationships in that person’s life.

For once we had a wide screen opportunity to change. I think the reason so many people got involved about Terri is that it came to our attention via collaboration of the internet and it was something people thought they might be able to make a difference in. But I think with her death we are seeing how far the collective soul of America has fallen. When people and our judicial leaders become so callused to suffering and death so as to embrace and choose death, rather than fighting and sacrificing time, effort and money for life, that is worse than sad. It’s tragic. That is why I grieve.

As for the Iraq thing, every one of those soldiers volunteered to be there with their eyes wide open. They are saints and heroes and I will not belittle what they have done for the Iraqi people. Don’t Vietnam them. They deserve our respect and thanks, nothing less. Sadaam and his sons diabolically tortured and slaughtered many more than will ever die in this war. Plus, your numbers include all those insurgents and their own innocent fellow Iraqis they have taken with them. They would do what they’re doing whether the Armed Forces were there or not. And under Sadaam or any other tyrant it would be 100 times worse.

Terri is free of pain.

I take comfort in the fact that God is in control of our future. He holds us in our hands as much as He ever did…and He always will.

It still amazes me how many Christians wanted to keep her from being with the Lord for as long as possible. Yes, she’s in a better place now, but her parents and their supporters sure put forth a lot of effort to keep that from happening.

As to life in Iraq before our intervention, we were told of all the evil that was going on there by the same people who told us that Saddam was a huge threat and his WMD’s would destroy us all. As it turned out, Saddam was hardly a threat to anyone except Dubya’s pride.

As to whether Terri was dying or not, how can you say she wasn’t dying? She certainly couldn’t stay alive on her own. Also, if she was murdered, then I suspect that there will be charges placed on the murderer. I would certainly hope that charges are filed. I certainly wouldn’t want to be murdered and my killer go free.

As to watching it happen. I wouldn’t say all. I certainly wasn’t glued to the TV waiting for something to happen one way or the other. I had and have way more important things in my life to deal with than getting involved in someone else’s private affairs.

I shouldn’t be wasting my time here, and wouldn’t if it weren’t for that ludicrous statement about “ever one of those soldiers volunteered to be there”.

You people didn’t even know Terri. You have never seen her in person. You definitely didn’t know her before her heart attack, and you have never met her husband OR her parents (who, by the way, thought it’d be a great way to make a buck by selling the e-mail addresses of money donors to advertisers). Of course, neither do I, but then again, I’m trusting the court’s decision in this case and I’m not ASSUMING that she was “murdered”. The courts were aware of the circumstances, and much moreso than you or I.

And as a side note as an atheist, if it were God’s will for Terri to live, and if he’s supposed to be as all-powerful and omnipotent as you say he is, why didn’t HE do anything? You think the PRESIDENT is more powerful in this case than GOD? OR his brother, for that matter? If you stop and look at this situation, and think about all the fervor and stupidity and politics and COMMERCIALISM (isn’t that disgusting? people making money off of another’s prolonged death?) surrounding this issue, you’ll realize you were never supposed to have an opinion on this anyway, because YOU were never involved and YOU don’t know everything that happened. The same goes for me, but I don’t really have much of an opinion on the Terri issue; it’s the people like you surrounding this issue that cause me to speak out.

And as for your comment regarding the soldiers: yeah, some of ‘em volunteered, but an unnaturally large amount of those soldiers were national guardsmen. You know, the ones who are only supposed to work “3 days a month, 2 weeks a year”? The ones who were never supposed to leave the country in the first place, but were forced to because our debacle of a military thought it was necessary to have tens of thousands of other ARMY troops stationed in other countries? If you think it was NECESSARY to go to war with Iraq to “liberate” it, then sign up for the army and go there yourself. Don’t just praise those who actually have the balls to go over there (even when technically they were never supposed to), and then don’t DO anything about it. They’re dying over there, and they shouldn’t even be there.

You seem to have a real good grasp of issues that you have no personal experience with, though. Really. Because you certainly seem to be showing a lot of concern with everybody ELSE in America in a persistent vegitative state. I mean, you could be a SPECIALIST with the amount of experience you have. No, seriously.

I’m only 18 years old, but I know that in order for a problem to work itself out, everybody and his brother can’t be sticking his damned nose in it, trying to force their own solution in an issue they’re not involved in. I’m just glad the courts didn’t give into the “all-seeing eye” that was trying to stare them down the whole time.

Terri wasn’t murdered. She was given the RIGHT to die. And you were trying to take it away.