[PleaseNoMore]

I am simply asking for a clarification of your # 117 in which you stated that you drew the lines at feeding tubes if necessary for more than a few days. I reread your posts and it is clear that you are against "artificial means" and that you consider feeding tubes to be such. Please, bring this to full circle and clarify your meaning of the above statement for those of us who may have misinterpreted your # 117.

FYI, I am considering that you meant that you are not against feeding tubes if they are only used for short term treatment but that you are opposed to them for long term care. Is that or is that not correct?

[Normally a Lurker]

FYI, I am considering that you meant that you are not against feeding tubes if they are only used for short term treatment but that you are opposed to them for long term care. Is that or is that not correct?

Correct, as far as it goes. I'm not even opposed to them being use for long-term care IF the individual has any significant degree of awarness/quality of life and wishes to have their use continued for an indifinite long-term period.

It's only in cases such as this (where the individual has no apparent awareness, and is apparently doomed to suffer for virtually an eternity with virtually no chance of recovery) that I'm opposed to their use.

I realize that even these factors are being debated in this case - although various judges, whom I assume to have been objective, have apparently determined that Terri has no apparent awarness and has no real chance of recovery.