[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I think YOU are inhumane. I see those who don't mind torturing poor innocents as more inhumane than those who are willing to put a bullet in their head.

Are all diabled persons "living death", as you call it?

Where do you draw that line?

[Annie03]

It is inaccurate to characterize Terri Schiavo as a "disabled" person. Her brain is destroyed (with the esception of her brain stem). Her eeg is flat. She cannot have an MRI because of the implant in her brain (the magnet would suck it right out). The alternative is brain surgery before any MRI. Her family loves her so much, they choose to think her reflexive movements and groans are responses. It's tragic beyond words. Had they stopped shocking her heart after the 3rd or 4th try in 1990, we wouldn't be here today.

[MineralMan]

"Are all diabled persons "living death", as you call it? "

"diabled" -- I like that one. Roots which tie to the devil, old Diablo.

So, I assume you mean a bedeviled person by that sentence. Well, I don't believe in the existence of any devils or any other supernatural entity, so I guess there aren't any such people.

[mercy]

The families and sometimes the courts have to draw that line. It's called freedom.