[the_devils_advocate_666]

Good Lord, let the poor thing die already. You could probably save thousands of lives with the money used to keep this body’s heart beating for the last 15 years.

[floriduh voter]

And you diagnosed this Italian patient when?

Luv your screen name.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The woman is in a coma. She is not in pain. She is lying there as peacefully as a sleeping child.

If we give her the most modest decent care a human being deserves, she may slumber or she may die, or she may recover to some extent, who knows?

If you're a regular reader of this kind of thread, you know that there are instances reported, I would say about monthly, of people waking up from comas of long duration.

The science of mind and consciousness is incompletely understood, to say the least.

It is not expensive to supply nutrition and fluids with a feeding tube.. It costs about as much as eating 3 meals a day at McDonalds, choosing the cheapest selections on the menu.

She may not be living the life you or I would prefer, but it's the only life she has. Why should she be forced by those more powerful, to die of hunger and thirst? Why? Simply for her father's belief (or yours) that she should be dead?

Such would be the argument of the tyrant. Such a death would negate, not this woman's humanity, but our own.

[wagglebee]

Good Lord, let the poor thing die already. You could probably save thousands of lives with the money used to keep this body’s heart beating for the last 15 years.

Just out of morbid curiousity, what is your criteria for deciding who should have food and water? I only ask because your statement have a rather unsettling familiarity to them.

Translation:
This person suffering from hereditary
defects costs the people 60,000
Reichmarks during his lifetime. People,
that is your money. Read 'New People'."