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Just go chain your dog to a tree in the backyard and watch it slowly starve to death and tell me that it's "euphoric" or a "thing of beauty" as one of the other regular posters here called it.
Callous, cruel, and inhumane, that's what it really is.

Hunger is fun. That's why everyone in this country is so skinny. Yeah, that's the ticket!

I don't know what Ms. Shiavo experienced as she died. I suspect the health professionals made sure that she was sedated and that as far as is humanly possible she felt nothing.

That said I'll repeat what I've said before. If we decide that we are going to let someone die then we should have the courage to kill them humanely. There is no moral difference between letting a comotose person die and killing them. By passively letting someone die I think we feel as if that somehow takes the responsibility off of us. It doesn't.

I do not know personally what dehydration feels like, at least not in the sense of dying from it. However, that does not invalidate the right of someone to make an opinionated post.

However, what strikes me as so humorous is that many of the people who post stupendous replies to letters rarely, if ever, have an email available whereby any dialogue can be pursued. That is sad. Yet, it speaks volumes to the character of the ones making those repsonses.

Terri Schiavo did not have a cerebral cortex. Basically, she did not have a brain. She was not conscious or self-aware and could not think or have any feelings. It really is doubtful whether she could suffer.

All that was left of her was her body, and that was being kept grotesquely alive. Her parents would have amputated all four of her limbs to keep her torso alive, and they said that they would keep her body alive even if she had had a living will specifically requesting not to be kept alive. Clearly they were not acting on Terri's behalf, no matter what they say. They were projecting their own problems onto her poor body.

I am glad for her sake that she was finally allowed to die, and I would want the same for myself if I were beyond recovery and beyond suffering, as she was.

I agree with Marshall. If the courts rule that she should die, at least give her a quick injection. It's asinine to just remove the feeding tube so that you're merely "allowing" her to die, rather than killing her.

"However, what strikes me as so humorous is that many of the people who post stupendous replies to letters rarely, if ever, have an email available whereby any dialogue can be pursued. That is sad. Yet, it speaks volumes to the character of the ones making those repsonses"

Dialogues can be accomplished here for everyone to see. Some of us prefer not to give our e-mail out for a variety of reasons; NOT because we are afraid to discuss issues.

It bothers me that this man's mistress was in the room with Ms. Schiavo when she died, but they wouldn't allow her mom to be in there. That is just wrong.