[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.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

The actual “food” they pump into this body may be a trivial expense but the “cost” of providing care 24x7 is nothing trivial.

[wagglebee]

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

Excellent point! Elie Wiesel wrote that it was not the Jewish people who faced extinction during the Holocaust so much as it was that morality faced extinction.