[Pan_Yans Wife]

The law in Florida states that food and hydration are extreme measures and can be witheld. The judge followed that law. The Floridians should get their state legislature to change that law... so that more people won't go through this.

[jpsb]

So when the law says you have to kneel down then addressing a a member of the government are you still going to be defending the rule of law?

there is natural law and divine law and then their is man law. Then man law conflicts with natural law or devine law it is no longer law. It is tyranny

[tina07]

not sure, but I believe I heard it became the law at the start of or during Terri's ordeal

[maryz]

The Floridians should get their state legislature to change that law...

It was just sometime in the 90s that the law was changed to include food and water as extreme measures -- through intense lobbying by Felos and the rest of the Hemlock Society (they had earlier been defeated in their attempts to legalize euthanasia outright).

IIRC, it is still not legal to withhold food and water from someone who is not PVS -- undoubted why Greer rejected any tests or medical testimony indicating that Terri is not.