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Every day, thousands of people quietly face decisions as agonizing as those made famous in the Terri Schiavo case. Throughout that controversy, all kinds of people--politicians, religious leaders, legal and medical experts--made emphatic statements about the facts and offered even more certain opinions about what should be done. To many, courts were either ordering Terri's death by starvation or vindicating her constitutional rights. Both sides called for simple answers. If That Ever Happens to Me details why these simple answers were not right for Terri Schiavo and why they are not rig

Decision Making -- ethics. --- Enteral Nutrition -- ethics. --- Euthanasia. --- Euthanasia, Passive -- ethics. --- Life Support Care -- ethics. --- Persistent Vegetative State. --- Right to die. --- Schiavo, Terri, 1963-2005. --- Schiavo, Terri. --- Terminal care. --- Withholding Treatment -- legislation & jurisprudence. --- Terminal care --- Right to die --- Euthanasia --- Euthanasia, Passive --- Life Support Care --- Withholding Treatment --- Enteral Nutrition --- Persistent Vegetative State --- Decision Making --- Ethics --- Nutritional Support --- Patient Care --- Unconsciousness --- Morals --- Brain Damage, Chronic --- Thinking --- Feeding Methods --- Therapeutics --- Health Services --- Mental Processes --- Nutrition Therapy --- Terminal Care --- Consciousness Disorders --- Brain Diseases --- Psychology, Social --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Neurobehavioral Manifestations --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Nervous System Diseases --- Neurologic Manifestations --- Diseases --- Signs and Symptoms --- Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms --- Palliative Care --- Medicine --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Schiavo, Terri, --- Death, Right to --- Death with dignity --- Natural death (Right to die) --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Assisted death (Euthanasia) --- Assisted dying (Euthanasia) --- Death, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Death, Mercy --- Dying, Assisted (Euthanasia) --- Killing, Mercy --- Mercy death --- Mercy killing --- Care and treatment --- Medical care --- Schindler-Schiavo, Terri, --- Schindler, Theresa Marie, --- Death --- Life and death, Power over --- Advance directives (Medical care) --- Do-not-resuscitate orders --- Suicide --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Homicide --- Medical ethics --- Assisted suicide --- legislation & jurisprudence. --- ethics. --- PVS (Persistent Vegetative State) --- Persistent Unawareness State --- Post-Comatose Unawareness State --- Post-Traumatic Unawareness State --- Postcomatose Unawareness State --- Posttraumatic Unawareness State --- Prolonged Post-Traumatic Unawareness --- Transient Vegetative State --- Vegetative State --- Minimally Conscious State --- Permanent Vegetative State --- Post-Traumatic Vegetative State --- Vegetative State, Persistent --- Minimally Conscious States --- PVSs (Persistent Vegetative State) --- Permanent Vegetative States --- Persistent Unawareness States --- Persistent Vegetative States --- Post Comatose Unawareness State --- Post Traumatic Unawareness State --- Post Traumatic Vegetative State --- Post-Comatose Unawareness States --- Post-Traumatic Unawareness States --- Post-Traumatic Unawareness, Prolonged --- Post-Traumatic Unawarenesses, Prolonged --- Post-Traumatic Vegetative States --- Postcomatose Unawareness States --- Posttraumatic Unawareness States --- Prolonged Post Traumatic Unawareness --- Prolonged Post-Traumatic Unawarenesses --- State, Minimally Conscious --- State, Permanent Vegetative --- State, Persistent Unawareness --- State, Persistent Vegetative --- State, Post-Comatose Unawareness --- State, Post-Traumatic Unawareness --- State, Post-Traumatic Vegetative --- State, Postcomatose Unawareness --- State, Posttraumatic Unawareness --- State, Transient Vegetative --- State, Vegetative --- States, Minimally Conscious --- States, Permanent Vegetative --- States, Persistent Unawareness --- States, Persistent Vegetative --- States, Post-Comatose Unawareness --- States, Post-Traumatic Unawareness --- States, Post-Traumatic Vegetative --- States, Postcomatose Unawareness --- States, Posttraumatic Unawareness --- States, Transient Vegetative --- States, Vegetative --- Transient Vegetative States --- Unawareness State, Persistent --- Unawareness State, Post-Comatose --- Unawareness State, Post-Traumatic --- Unawareness State, Postcomatose --- Unawareness State, Posttraumatic --- Unawareness States, Persistent --- Unawareness States, Post-Comatose --- Unawareness States, Post-Traumatic --- Unawareness States, Postcomatose --- Unawareness States, Posttraumatic --- Unawareness, Prolonged Post-Traumatic --- Unawarenesses, Prolonged Post-Traumatic --- Vegetative State, Permanent --- Vegetative State, Post-Traumatic --- Vegetative State, Transient --- Vegetative States --- Vegetative States, Permanent --- Vegetative States, Persistent --- Vegetative States, Post-Traumatic --- Vegetative States, Transient --- Akinetic Mutism --- Coma --- Deciding --- Decision (Psychology) --- Decision analysis --- Decision processes --- Making decisions --- Management --- Management decisions --- Choice (Psychology) --- Problem solving --- Minimally conscious state --- Permanent vegetative state --- Persistent unawareness state --- Post-traumatic vegetative state --- Posttraumatic vegetative state --- PVS (Persistent vegetative state) --- Unawareness state, Persistent --- Vegetative state, Persistent --- Brain damage --- Loss of consciousness --- Decision making