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Concerned,
Condolences on the passing of your aunt.
I'm sure your cousins did what they thought was right when reading the Living Will your aunt left and their own remberences of conversations with her.

Comments like yours cause us all to pause and think about Terri. In absence of a living will, even if she did express her desire not to be kept alive artificailly, did she intend for that to be the withholding of food and water.

Your comments make us really think hard about the consequences of decisions.

I agree with others that his is not a "Right To Life" case, it is a "Right Not to Be Killed" case. Food and water to me are not extrodinary, in the absence of instructions of her wishes she should be given food and water. And be treated medically to give her the best possible life. Her parents have her best intrest at heart, not her husband (In Name Only).
Thanks for writing and telling us how awful an end starvation is. I think we all knew it, but your first person account (and the account of others) drives it home.

I finally have time to get that freepathon check in the mail for Free Republic. Can you please put FR's mailing address on this thread? That's another way to thank Jim Robinson for putting up with Terri's undaunted crew. FV

In absence of a living will, even if she did express her desire not to be kept alive artificailly, did she intend for that to be the withholding of food and water.

Not to mention that in the year she supposedly made these comments about not wanting to be kept alive artifically, food and water WAS NOT considered extraordinary means. It was not considered extraordinary til 10 years after she supposedly made that comment.

(woohoo! I finally figured out how to italicize a quote!)