[Hildy]

If the feeding tube is removed, can't they give her drugs so she wouldn't "starve to death?"

[blueriver]

If the feeding tube is removed, can't they give her drugs so she wouldn't "starve to death?"

I have come to the conclusion that if it were up to you would hold a gun to her head and shoot her. In your mind you would be putting her out of her "misery", like they do to horses that no longer can run the race. Can you not see that this is murder no matter how you slice it? No matter how noble your cause may be it is still murder. How can you be so sure that with advances in medicine that maybe one day she would not regain her ability to move? How can anyone deny her this option and have the right to kill her?

Here is a question for you. If you were in Terri's condition for 10 years and on the 11th year you suddenly regained your ability to move would you have wanted someone to kill you in year 9?

[sarasmom]

No.
They can give her drugs to kill her, but removing the feeding tubes will kill her by slow starvation.
She needs no other life support measures, and only needs the feeding tubes because her husband suspended PT untill she deteriorated to the point that she required them to exist.