[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Every time someone is forcibly starved to death because it's a cost-effective way to end a life deemed too expensive or high-maintenence by the family or the medical establishment, yes, it's absolutely murder. Pure barbarism.

This thread seems like a self-help group for people who have done that very thing to a loved one, quite honestly.

[mercy]

See, this is the divide. It's so simple really.

I just have a very different definition of life than you do. Terri is in a living death. Friends just don't let friends go on like that .... for ever.

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. You are just too civilized. It's a form of political correctness.

[Finger Monkey]

This thread seems like a self-help group for people who have done that very thing to a loved one,

You make Stolen Bunny bang his head.

[mountaineer]

Every time someone is forcibly starved to death because it's a cost-effective way to end a life deemed too expensive or high-maintenence by the family or the medical establishment, yes, it's absolutely murder. Pure barbarism.

Those aren't the reasons given for removing Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. If they were, I'd wholeheartedly agree.

[mountaineer]

This thread seems like a self-help group for people who have done that very thing to a loved one, quite honestly.

Thanks for presuming, but it's quite the opposite, actually. My family was asked whether we wanted to remove a feeding tube from my father. We said no. He continued to receive nutrition by tube until he died of other causes. Sorry to burst your bubble - or disprove your theory.

Of course, my father hadn't signed a living will indicating one way or the other whether he would want the feeding tube so, as his spouse, it was up to my mother to decide.

This is not a self-help thread. This is a break from the hyperbole, hysteria, meanspiritedness, unchristian attitudes and false information running rampant elsewhere.

[malakhi]

This thread seems like a self-help group for people who have done that very thing to a loved one, quite honestly.

I don't suppose you have any evidence to substantiate that assertion?