[bonfire]

I think most of us assume that life-support means a ventilator. How many of us ever thought it could mean a feeding tube? IF Terri ever said this, I doubt she meant food and water.

[agrace]

Even if she did, her wishes would not have legally been able to be carried out when she said it - FL law at the time did not consider feeding tubes to be life support either and the law only changed sometime AFTER her accident. But somehow the judge has seen fit to retroactively apply the newer statute to Terri.

[iowamomforfreedom]

"I think most of us assume that life-support means a ventilator. How many of us ever thought it could mean a feeding tube? IF Terri ever said this, I doubt she meant food and water."

Actually, at the time of Terri's incapacitation, Florida law did not recognize a feeding tube as life support. Schiavo's lawyer Felos was instrumental in getting the law changed in 1999 to include it in the law as life-support. Interesting, huh?