[CindyDawg]

I keep seeing posts that she will die 1n 7-14 days. This isn't true. She will die of dehydration, not starvation. and might live 3 days at most. She will have trouble swallowing and her mouth will be dry and crack. Her organs will irreversibly shut down. It's a painful way to die. We don't even treat deathrow executions like this.

[fawn796]

I was questioning the 7-10 day thing also!

[Moose4]

The insane and sick irony about this is that what Michael Schiavo is planning to do to his wife could not be done to the vilest, lowest, most unrepentant murderer or pedophile currently gracing our prisons. It would violate the prisoner's Constitutional protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and rightfully, every court in this land would instantly strike it down.

Yet those same courts will graciously allow him to do it to a woman guilty of nothing more than bad luck and (maybe) marrying a bad guy.

Sometimes, dammit, this country needs less law and more common sense.

}:-)4

[MistyCA]

Animals aren't treated like that! But I disagree that it would only take 3 days. I think it could take much longer than that.

[MarMema]

Very few die in only three days. Historically it has taken some up to 20 days to die. Check out my FR page for lots of stories. In three days she will begin to seriously suffer.