[BykrBayb]

Your hero already worked to change it. Felos helped push through a law declaring food and water to be extraordinary measures. You can call an apple a plum, but that doesn't make it so. When Terri is alleged to have made her declaration that she "wouldn't want to live like that," food and water were recognized as basic human needs. Even though that law has been changed, it's still illegal to remove Terri's feeding tube, and it's illegal to deny her the right to eat and drink orally.

[ORECON]

You are grasping at straws. If you don't like the law, then work to change it. I happen to agree that feeding tubes are an artificial life support and my will says don't do it. That is my legal choice. I had to put it in writing to protect my wife from people who disagree with my legal choice.

[george wythe]

When Terri is alleged to have made her declaration that she "wouldn't want to live like that," food and water were recognized as basic human needs.

BykrBayb, the Florida courts disagree with you.

From today's decision by the Second District Court of Appeal:

The trial court's decision does not give Mrs. Schiavo's legal guardian the option of leaving the life-prolonging procedures in place. No matter who her guardian is, the guardian is required to obey the court order because the court, and not the guardian, has determined the decision that Mrs. Schiavo herself would make.

The legal process utilized by the trial court in this case is not new. Long before Mrs. Schiavo suffered her heart attack in February 1990, the Supreme Court of Florida had already determined that the express right of privacy in article I, section 23, of the Florida Constitution gave both competent and incompetent persons the right to forego life-prolonging procedures