[GailA]

We had a ped doc on this afternoon on our local talk radio here in Memphis...he said they did this when he was a intern at one of the local hospitals to a baby.. the baby cried and cried he was so long hungry...they finally put him back on the feeding tubes as the medical staff couldn't stand it any more.

[Humidston]

I'm told starvation is very painful and agnoizing. My mother was in advanced stages of Alzheimers and we family members faced having to decide when to let her go.

I studied some information and decided they'd have to pull her tube over MY dead body. Fortunately, she died of pneumonia and we didn't have to come to that crossroad...