[KDD]

It was unseemly for critics to compare her end with that of victims of the Nazi regime. There was never a more industrious inquiry, than in the Schiavo case, into the matter of rights formal and inchoate. It is simply wrong, whatever is felt about the eventual abandonment of her by her husband, to use the killing language. She was kept alive for fifteen years, underwent a hundred medical ministrations, all of them in service of an abstraction, which was that she wanted to stay alive. There are laws against force-feeding, and no one will know whether, if she had had the means to convey her will in the matter, she too would have said, Enough.

William F. Buckley Jr

The Great Quandary
Enough.

[MadIvan]

Having no intelligent opinion of your own, you blandly quote others. All to justify, among other things, the following happening to Terri as she dies:

The first thing is that after 2-3 days you get extremely dehydrated. That results in a lot of changes in the body. Your mucous membranes and your skin get very dry. Your mouth cracks. It's very uncomfortable. Your urine becomes very concentrated and acidic, making it uncomfortable to urinate. Then your heart rate increases, your blood pressure decreases, and after about the third day, your kidneys start to develop problems. When the kidneys are damaged enough, they cannot get rid of the poison in the body. Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) builds up. The effect that this has on the body is to give you a type of lethargy, and has an almost anesthetic effect. It can also result in seizures. The poison builds up and drives the person towards unconsciousness after a period of days. The cause of death is usually seizures or cardiac arrhythmia because of an electrolyte imbalance.

I don't know, are you a human being? I find your claim to that title to be quesitonable.

Ivan

[MadIvan]

By the way, I'll bloody call you whatever the bloody hell I see fit. You're supporting murdering a poor woman in an extremely painful way. People like you are monsters - William F. Buckley be damned.

Ivan

[msuMD]

You aren't going to find any support in here for what is right. 67% of americans agree with you and me.