[mcg1969]

How typically hypocritical

Hardly. There is a big difference between a feeding tube and a respirator. There isn't a single healthy person on this planet who requires help to breathe. But all of us at one point have required help to eat, even though we were 100% healthy.

Or to put it in a more technical frame, respiration is autonomic, feeding is not. (Digestion is---feeding is not).

So it's actually quite reasonable and straightforward to distinguish between his mother's and his daughter's cases.

[Servant of the 9]

So it's actually quite reasonable and straightforward to distinguish between his mother's and his daughter's cases.

Then why did he testify under oath that he would cut Terri's arms and legs off and put her on a respirator if necessary to keep her going?

So9

[TASMANIANRED]

Actually pulling the respirator only changed the time of her death not the fact that she died.

She would have died from renal failure in 3-4 days , if she stayed on the ventilator.