[tkathy]

This is a can of worms. It is best left to the medical community. There will always be cases that slip through the cracks, and bad, ignorant laws will not help. In fact, probably make things much worse.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Please enlighten us as to why doctors should be allowed to dictate who lives and dies, instead of merely being custodians of the means of healing.

[phenn]

I have to be honest in that I think it's a far bigger and nastier can of worms we open up when we start accepting the practice of ending life because of disability.

[MEGoody]

"This is a can of worms."

I'm not sure what can of worms you are refering to. If a person is unable to speak for themselves and hasn't given written permission to starve them to death, I don't think someone else should make that choice for them.

[tutstar]

May God's mercy keep you from falling into the same condition as Terri married to a spouse of the same caliber.

[Old Professer]

Any person who removes a feeding tube from another whose nourishment depends on that device is the proximate cause of death barring other trauma or acute event; to say otherwise, or to believe otherwise is merely a comfortable fiction.