I believe the one weak link in the chain touted by folks who favor allowing Terry to die, is there is nothing in writing to support her husband's claim that she would want to die.

Nevertheless, Terry's husband is her next of kin.

Three years ago my wife was rushed to hospital with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. While they were still trying to diagnose that condition she went into a coma. During our marriage she had always insisted that she did not want anyone killing her before her time but that she also did not want anyone playing God and keeping her alive artificially.She considered these two things to be equally wrong. This is the sort of thing that married people sometimes do only say to their spouses. They don't write them down. Thank God, none of Chris' relatives challenged my statement on this. The medical staff knew that any operation to "save" her life would result in a vegatative state and, therefore, allowed her to die.

I was, I am, broken hearted that she died so early. But the idea of keeping her artificially alive like a specimen in a laboratory seems heartless and even, to me, Godless.

Yes, I'm pro-life. I don't generally approve of abortion or euthanasia (please note the word 'generally'). But if it is wrong to kill the living, surely it is equally wrong to artificially keep alive the person who is, to all intents and purposes, dead.

Frank L.