[Timeout]

I want to run something by you guys on the Terri Schiavo saga. It looks like her time is about to run out. So here's what I propose:

Once the very last effort has been made and rebuffed, allow the nursing staff to place a stopperful of water in her mouth. If she swallows it, voila! The docs and judges will have been proved wrong and the tube goes back in. If she chokes and dies...well, at least it's over. And humanity can say at least we tried.

Is that cruel?

[pubmom]

At this point she'd probably choke. If she's getting morphine it's going to affect her ability to swallow, I'd imagine.

The whole thing makes me sick.