[Gondring]

If his mother couldn't get air herself, doesn't she have the right to have it provided, if we go with the logic that Mrs. Schiavo must be force-fed through a tube if she doesn't get food herself?

[I'm ALL Right!]

I hope you're being sarcastic.

A person who has to be on a machine to breathe, and whose organs are shutting down due to illness is a totally different situation from a person who is simply receiving sustenance through a tube. (In fact, her nurses said she can swallow, but it takes a great deal of energy.) If I stopped giving you food and water, you'd die just like Terri is dying. She has no other "extraordinary means" of survival other than FOOD AND WATER.

[youngtory]

"But, given the vehemence with which he has been fighting to prolong Terri's life, it is a little surprising to learn that Robert decided to turn off the life-support system for his mother. She was 79 at the time, and had been ill with pneumonia for a week, when her kidneys gave out. "I can remember like yesterday the doctors said she had a good life. I asked, 'If you put her on a ventilator does she have a chance of surviving, of coming out of this thing?'" Robert says. "I was very angry with God because I didn't want to make those decisions."

Ahem- a feeding tube is not the same as life support, given the fact that the English language came from Great Britain, you would think that they understand their own language. Terri was not on life support she used a feeding tube to eat.