[Pegita]

I agree, ladyjane ... starving someone is murder. Nothing less. Starving someone on the pretext that she wanted relief from tubes is attempting murder. Gastric tubes at the time of Terri's collapse were nutritional, nothing more. VENTILATORS were life-sustaining measures. You've got to give the Merchants of Death credit ... they know how to change the language. You've got to give Terri credit, too ... she could see far into the future when VENTILATORS would become TUBES, such was her desire to die. Amazing. Only one thing is wrong ... she's not dying. In order to die, she has to be killed.

[Spyder]

Huh? So because you can go longer without food or water than you can without oxygen a feeding tube "isn't a life-sustaining measure" but a vent is? Withdrawing a feeding tube is exactly the same ethically as withdrawing a ventilator.