[AndrewC]

Let us begin with some medical facts. On February 25, 1990, Terri Schiavo had a cardiac arrest, triggered by extreme hypokalemia brought on by an eating disorder.

It is worse than that. She was not diagnosed as having such a disorder. It is not a fact, but it is a supposition in order to explain her collapse.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Odd that Quill titled his work "Terri Schiavo - A Tragedy Compounded". He is compounding it further by putting this garbage in print.

[peter the great]

In considering such profound decisions, the central issue is not what family members would want for themselves or what they want for their incapacitated loved one, but rather what the patient would want for himself or herself. The New Jersey Supreme Court that decided the case of Karen Ann Quinlan got the question of substituted judgment right: If the patient could wake up for 15 minutes and understand his or her condition fully, and then had to return to it, what would he or she tell you to do.

Some more facts the Karen Ann Quinlan case involved the removal of a respirator not a feeding tube. As a matter of fact a Terri Schiavo situation could not happen in New Jersey because there is a law that it is illegal to deprive anyone of food or water. The second argument about waking up for 15 or 20 minutes and being able to comprehend fully your situation. I wonder what would happen if an attorney argued that it would be Spiritually beneficial to the victim to remain in the current state. How would that argument go over.