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Nobody in the world is going to choose to starve to death. If people really want to depart this earth they will do it in a faster, more painless way; but if their survival instinct remains intact they will definitely want basic food and water.

'Tis why I say that if those executing Terri Schiavo had the courage of their convictions, they would put a bullet through her head, or give her a lethal injection.

'Tis why I say that if those executing Terri Schiavo had the courage of their convictions, they would put a bullet through her head, or give her a lethal injection.

Oh, don't worry. They're just getting started.

Within a year, lethal injection of patients with so-called "PVS" will be routine.

It's what they would have wanted. No one should be made to suffer like Terri. Who's going to pay the bills? They are selfishly consuming "our" healthcare.

Ever hear of incrementalism? Judge George Greer is setting a bold precedent regarding the personhood of humans born as free persons here. Just you wait until next time. It'll get worse. Greer's really trying to set the precedent that just any judge can revoke our personhood--and hence the certain inalienable rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness, endowed in each of us by our Creator--irreversibly. He's building on earlier precedent, that neither those born as slaves (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857) nor those not yet born (Roe et al. v. Wade, 1973) are persons despite their human genome. Now that the Judges have this precedent on which to build, expect broad classes of humans to be denied their personhood.

People speak of Teri Schiavvo as if she were the only person on earth that feeding tubes have been removed from. When in actuality if crowds were forming at every hospice and hospital where they are removed daily the people typing about Terri in here wouldnt have time , they would be standing in front of their local Nursing home. It isnt a pleasant way to die thats for sure,But its a choice of allowing euthanasia or allowing a natural death by no longer feeding people artificially. Euthanasia is illegal and starvation by taking away feeding tubes is.

Suppose tomorrow we passed a law outlawing taking away
feeding tubes.

Many would lie around for months suffering much longer than the few days it takes to starve and other would have to refuse to be hooked up so they could have a few more days. Its not an easy solution to the problem. Laws would just make it worse, The way it is now its the relatives decision and it should remain so. There arent many times the family disagrees on a decision like this , people have lost all perspective in the Schiavvo case and gone on a crusade. A crusade that will probably end with a solution even worse than the present one.

Be careful what you wish for - the "cruel and unusual" angle will only invite a more "humane" execution - it won't remove the horror of striking someone dead because they are "less than human" in the eyes of the spiritually "dead".

"...they would put a bullet through her head, or give her a lethal injection...."

I'm not in the medical field so I need some help with this. If Terri has been given a morphine drip the last couple of days, and IF the feeding tube is reinserted, in Terri's condition, would the morphine have a negative affect. Would she have some sort of withdrawl problems with it, combined with the reintroduction of nutrition? Could that lead to her death, having a shock to her system like that hit her after two weeks without food AND water?