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To: johnb838
Refusing medical treatment is not euthanasia.

Using a feeding tube to receive artifical nutrients and water is a medical procedure. The courts have found "clear and convincing evidence" that Terri does not want to live like a house plant.

I went to school with a Christian Scientist guy who died after refusing medical treatment for his ailment. That was not euthanasia, not here in Florida, not anywhere in the US.

723 posted on 03/18/2005 12:00:25 PM PST by george wythe
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To: george wythe
The courts have found "clear and convincing evidence" that Terri does not want to live like a house plant.

Then why did she cry, when told by an attorney, what was about to happen to her?

771 posted on 03/18/2005 12:05:36 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (aitch tee tee pea colon 2 slashes dubya dubya dubya dot proud patriots dot org)
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To: george wythe
I went to school with a Christian Scientist guy who died after refusing medical treatment for his ailment.

Did HE refuse it, or did someone knock him out and then refuse it for him?

780 posted on 03/18/2005 12:06:57 PM PST by Petronski (If 'Judge' Greer can kill Terri, who will be next?)
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To: george wythe
Using a feeding tube to receive artifical nutrients and water is a medical procedure. The courts have found "clear and convincing evidence" that Terri does not want to live like a house plant.
If you keep watering a dead house plant it will just wither away and die. No matter how much food and water it gets.
939 posted on 03/18/2005 12:24:40 PM PST by HungarianGypsy
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