[AntiGuv]

Now, let's step back and ask, would you intentionally tell someone if you were in an incapacitated state, that you would like to be dehydrated to death?

I told someone tonight while we were discussing this that once my cerebral cortex had atrophied and therefore no possibility existed for me to ever be "me" again, that I would definitely want the tube pulled beyond a shadow of a doubt.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You might be surprised what you know then that you didn't think you could know.

[jonrick46]

Most people do not think of life in such clinical terms. Very few of us know what such an incapacitated state would be like. Who would take the chance of having someone dehydrate us to death knowing there was a remote chance that we would feel the experience. Would you recommend that you go to the dentist for a root canal without anesthetic? Would you recommend dehydration if you knew in the process you would experience worse pain than a simple root canal for days; pain so bad that it would cause you go into involuntary convulsions?

I have a test for you: go get a hammer, put you thumb down on a concrete floor and whack that thumb with the hammer as hard as you can. I hope you would have the I.Q. to realize that it would be a stupid test and be smart enough not do do it. I believe that Terri Schiavo was smart enough to keep from whacking her thumb with a hammer.