Terri Schiavo failed swallow tests in 1991, 1992, and 1993, a three year period of time in which she was receiving "swallow therapy".
Why would anyone assume, much less state as fact, that Terri could handle oral hydration and nutrition 12 years after (ineffective) swallow therapy was discontinued?
Why would anyone call for the prosecution and punishment of a sitting judge who refused such oral hydration and nourishment as an "experimental therapeutic procedure"?
To say that Terri could have handled enough oral nourishment in 2005 to survive is a lie. I asked the poster three times to support that statement and was met with silence.
Clearly, you do not have experience in medical care. Further, you do not agree with Wolfson's report.
What outcome did you fear from attempts to provide oral hydration to Mrs. Schiavo?
The tests do not mean what you believe they mean. I explained that the tests were inconsistent - sometimes she would swallow, sometimes she would not. There was a risk - a chance - of aspiration and infection.
There is no evidence that she could not take enough nourishment to remain alive, only that compared to a feeding tube, it was inefficient to hand-feed her and that the tube carried less risk - less chance - of infection.
However, the question was not whether Terri desired to live, but whether she desired to live "like that," or dependent on artificial means.
Her parents were willing to feed her.