[floriduh voter]

Re: your post. The right to die crowd is missing the point. TERRI IS NOT TERMINALLY ILL OR HOOKED UP TO MACHINES. SHE IS RESPONSIVE. We do not kill disabled people - or if we are, we need to stop!

[pickyourpoison]

We are killing other people, Hugh Finn or Marjorie Nighbert are two that come to mind.

[supercat]

TERRI IS NOT TERMINALLY ILL OR HOOKED UP TO MACHINES.

BTW, is there any medical reason, other than convenience terminology, for removing the feeding tube from a patient who cannot (or is not allowed to) take food/water by mouth? To the uninformed, "remove someone's feeding tube" sounds much better than "stop giving someone food and water", don't you think? But if the intention were simply to stop giving food and water, why not leave the tube in place?