[Theodore R.]

I agree. We have no business attacking one another. We are trying to save a life. Right now, I feel that we are on a hopeless mission, with all the forces of liberalism and evil arrayed against us. Terri's fight is is the most important event in America now, not Iraq, not "Arnold" for governor. Why? because her fight is about the essence of life itself

[Theodore R.]

I just received this email from a friend whom I told about Terri's fight. She was unaware of it.

"The prestigious medical journal "Lancet" published a study last month showing that terminally ill people do not suffer from euthanasia by starvation and generally die in a day or two without fluids. They are kept on morphine. . . .

"But the thing about the Lancet article was that Lancet really hesitated to publish it because they were afraid of just the abuse you are talking about.

"We already have a lot more secret euthanasia than most of us realize--that little extra dose of morphine that depresses breathing and kills is the usual way. But with all the Medicare expenses, we'll be seeing lots more state murders to keep cost down while CEO's of insurance companies collect their 50 million a year salaries.

My reply: Do you think the kind of thinking expressed here is the reason Terri's fight has not made the mainstream media news? Many seem to believe that there is no pain or discomfort to being starved to death, particularly if one is "terminal" or "vegetative." And we know that Terri is in neither of those states.