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Get off your high horse, MHGinTN. I see you've been on Free Republic since 2000. I've been a Freeper since 1998, so don't give me any lip about "if your gonna post at FR." I've got a 2-year headstart on you. Now since I've seen your rapsheet here at FR, I know where you are coming from. You are a zealot and activist. Fine. Again, live and let live. You are gung ho your point of view. Just try not to speak for a woman you don't know, and base your views on second-hand facts and hearsay. And we (that includes you) do not know if she is in agony and sentient at a level she cannot express; however, if you read my comments more closely, you will realize I was speaking to physical agony. That can be observed by her continued deterioration, which must be obvious to those that minister to her physical needs. This whole thing is disgusting. Her soul has, in my opinion, long since left her mortal body and is with God; all that remains is the shell that continues to deteriorate. The whole issue gives me the creeps. You don't think 13 years in a vegetative state is enough? How about another 20. Will you feel better then? Will the parents feel better, having spent all of their remaining lives babysitting a brain dead daughter, rather than moving on with their own lives, and allowing the husband to do the same? Not a psychologically healthy situation here. But, again, you're entitled to your opinion, and I to mine. The difference is I am right (and grounded in the reality of the situation).

Her soul has, in my opinion, long since left her mortal body and is with God; all that remains is the shell that continues to deteriorate

Just what do you base that opinion on? Where are we given any information that the soul leaves the body before death?

Why are so many willing to play God here? If her body is deteriorating - it will lead to death.

This is not a case of "her" wishes because we have nothing in writing - only the word of a husband who is tired of caring for her and his family.

Her family wants her alive - they should be allowed to take control of her and let him get out of the picture.

Why the strong urge to kill others, to judge they are not fit to live? If you believe this strongly, I hope you have done a Medical Power of Attorney and put it in writing so that this will be done to you in less than the 14 years as you wish.

This is addressed to a couple of you who must not have read my post #130. Sounds like if you had read it and and still say what you do, you would have advised me and my wife to have abandoned our little vegetable decades ago, perhaps a post partum abortion.

So I commend to you my post to read and invite you to tell me why we did the wrong thing.

flaglady47, glad to see you are a conservative political activist in Illinois. You may remember that pivotal day in Illinois, Bloomington/Normal, Oct18,1980, when I was there with the boss. It is a day I will never forget.

...live and let live

a puzzling paradox in your usage of the phrase

This whole thing is disgusting...

Disgusting is supporting to end a human life by starvation.