[DJ MacWoW]

Does it matter who ordered her murder? No. She was murdered. When food and hydration are removed from any living thing, it dies, it was killed.

The state was not ordering death. It was simply determining whether TS's legal guardian had the power to order her feeding tube removed.

You need to make up your mind.

The court ended up making the final determination in this case.

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The state was not ordering death.

42 posted on 04/05/2005 2:41:03 PM PDT by Modernman ("I'm in favor of limited government unless it limits what I want government to do."- dirtboy)
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[Modernman]

Does it matter who ordered her murder? No. She was murdered. When food and hydration are removed from any living thing, it dies, it was killed.

Again, a matter of perspective. Terri Schiavo, for all intents and purposes, died 15 years ago.

[lugsoul]

"When food and hydration are removed from any living thing, it dies, it was killed."

Not when it comes though a feeding tube, they ask not to have it, and they live in Florida.

The ONLY issue in the Schiavo case, legally, is did she ask not to have it. People have testified in different ways on that question - none of us, AFAIK, heard any of those stories on cross-examination.

But, if she asked not to have it, it ain't murder - not even by the Vatican's definition.