[nickcarraway]

The real question is: would you want to be starved to death which could take two to three weeks or more? Wouuld you want someone to inflict a painful, agonizing death on you?

[BCR #226]

I know I wouldn't... and I wouldn't subject anyone to that kind of torture... Anyone who would is a monster. I've gone through extreme dehydration and it is very painful. Ever have a charlie horse? That is what it feels like all over your body.

Thank you for bringing up that point.

Mike

[BCR #226]

I know I wouldn't... and I wouldn't subject anyone to that kind of torture... Anyone who would is a monster. I've gone through extreme dehydration and it is very painful. Ever have a charlie horse? That is what it feels like all over your body.

Thank you for bringing up that point.

Mike

[shhrubbery!]

Death may come more quickly, because Terri is not only being starved, she's being dehydrated. She could die in 3 or 4 days instead of 10-14.

Death by dehydration is also extremely unpleasant. Perhaps to make it seem "peaceful," Terri has been "sedated" by the medical staff.

Death row murderers are also "sedated" before execution by lethal injection. Makes it all nicer for observers, doesn't it?

[Dave S]

The real question is: would you want to be starved to death which could take two to three weeks or more? Wouuld you want someone to inflict a painful, agonizing death on you?

And your proof for the fact that starvation is a particularly painful death? Various religions use long fasts as a part of their rituals. Generally once you go more than a day or so no a fast, most of your hunger goes away. Yes, when your organs start to breakdown as you die I suppose that is painful but that is why in hospital settings they provide morphine for pain.

My mother died several months ago from severe pneumonia, complicated by infection, long-term Parkinson's and a bowel obstruction which required surgery which she was unlikely to survive. (BTW, she had signed a DNR years before and was horrified of the possibility of being put on a ventilator). I sat with her for four days after they stopped feeding and other treatment except for pain. I did not notice and she did not complain of pain and she was conscious and communicative during much of that period.

[Warren]

OUCH, how about some other choices?