[Bloody Sam Roberts]

She'll die in about 3 days if water withheld and it will be painful.

I wonder....if the person who is charged with removing the feeding tube were to use a pistol to terminate her life...would that person be charged with murder?

If the intent of removing the feeding tube is to terminate the life of someone deemed as being in a persistent vegetative state, how then could someone be charged with murder for achieving the same end with a pistol?

Does removing a feeding tube make them any less of a murderer?

[blueriver]

I wonder....if the person who is charged with removing the feeding tube were to use a pistol to terminate her life...would that person be charged with murder?

I thought the exact same thing.

[MagnoliaMS]

Excellent point.

[CindyDawg]

I'm not ignoring your question. I'm not sure what to say though. If I tell someone I don't want something and am making an informed decision, they aren't killing me, but backing off as I instructed. If someone makes this decision for me, if I am unable it's still not murder. A judge who decides though to not only stop my food and water without giving me the opportunity to eat because it might kill me is holding a pistol IMO

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I have heard that the parents are willing to launch a civil wrongful death suit against those employed at the hospice who do assist in ending Terri's life.