[AlaskaErik]

I don't know how "dignified" it is to have an innocent woman condemned to death by starvation and dehydration.

The woman is clinically dead. Has been for years. Don't try to emotionalize it. It's time to let nature take its course.

[Pegita]

If you seek the truth and wish to spread the truth, as your home page says, you would conclude that laughter and happy response and eye contact and physical movement are not part of the "clinically dead" assessment ... I've never heard of anyone clinically dead being a candidate for rehabilitation ...

[deannadurbin]

>>The woman is clinically dead. Has been for years.

And you have been to visit her and have seen this for yourself?

>>Don't try to emotionalize it.

Yeah, I guess I should be as cold and heartless as you and Michael Schiavo.

>>It's time to let nature take its course.

Letting nature take its course would be to allow her to have food and water and then let God take her when He's ready. Circumventing the natural process is what is going on now.

[Bluebird Singing]

You are ignorant.

[TigersEye]

The woman is clinically dead.

Look at this video and tell me she is clinically dead.

[tertiary01]

There is a simple way to determine if Terri wants to live. Offer her some food, if she wants to live she will open her mouth or make some gesture or movement towards wanting to eat (if she is not been made too debilitated by her starvation or the morphine). If you have ever worked with disabled adults you will find their desire to live is often extremely intense.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

You are not really familiar with this case are you?

[tickles]

OK, so in your opinion she's clinically dead.

Not mine, but since if she's clinically dead then why did the judge deny her the chance to attempt getting her hydration and food by mouth? After all if she's clincally dead as you think, she really won't be able to swallow what is placed in her mouth, right? BUT if she really isn't clinically dead she probably can swallow and thus give herself a chance for a longer life. So deny Terri right to try?

Personally since even Karen Quinlan didn't have her breathing tube removed without theraphy to give her a chance to breath on her own, exactly why is a feeding tube being removed without theraphy to give Terri a chance to swallow and digest food on her own?

(and no, I don't think her tube should have been removed)