If this was your child, would you want to give up hope?

- hope is one thing - but you have to hang hope on reality

If your child were breathing, wouldnt you still consider her alive?

- not in this condition, no

It doesnt matter that she's been in her current condition for 15 years.

- yes it does. There is no way this person is recovering. Its tough. I feel for them, but I watched my dad's wife try to drag him along and I went to battle with her to get life support withdrawn. I'm all about compassion - what sickens me is selfish cruelty.

It's still their daughter and they're watching her die.

- she died 15 years ago. At this point, their pain is self inflicted.

Not only do they have to deal with the loss of their child, but they also have to grieve the loss of their fantasy that she will recover.

- see above - self inflicted.

AND they have to do it with the whole world watching.

- that's a whole other crime and yes I believe the perpetrators deserve new lives as fast food and sanitation workers.