[Zevonismymuse]

I didn't know that a "vegetable" could experience discomfort.

Sure they can. Pain is the most primitive of emotions.

I have had both personal and professional experience with similar cases. There are many people living in Nursing Homes who are being kept alive despite the fact all meaningful life for them has long ended. This sounds like one of those cases.

[pc93]

Request of me the affadavit, etc. anent the present up and coming Federal Case, etc. It is not the case at all that which you suggest. Michael Schiavo deserves to be behind bars.

[Don Joe]

"This sounds like one of those cases."

You are obviously not up to speed on this case.

[hocndoc]

If you look at the videos on the parent's website, at the time those videos were taken (when the court had her examined, evidently), Terri Schiavo was not in a "persistent vegetative state."

[hocndoc]

http://www.terrisfight.org/lead.htm
Here's the website