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To: AKSurprise
All she needed was to receive nutrition and hydration as she had received it for years. That's life support just like a baby's bottle or me feeding my blind and addled father in law. (Memory eternal)

Starvation of a helpless human being is the ugly truth of what happened in Florida. They put people in jail here for doing that to dogs.

118 posted on 03/11/2007 8:20:48 PM PDT by don-o (Fight, fight. fight to drive the GOP to the right!!!!)
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To: don-o

Why didn't any of the protesters ever work to get Florida law changed so a feeding tube wasn't considered "life support" by default?


125 posted on 03/11/2007 8:22:53 PM PDT by voltaires_zit (Government is the problem, not the answer.)
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To: don-o

That's life support just like a baby's bottle or me feeding my blind and addled father in law.

No, medically it isn't the same. A baby can swallow. Your blind and addled father-in-law could swallow. Terri Schiavo had lost half her brain tissue, along with the basic reflexes that allow people to swallow properly. She had swallowing tests and failed them.

349 posted on 03/11/2007 10:29:51 PM PDT by retMD
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