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To: Edward Watson

You are wrong on the facts. Terri can in fact eat food but her husband forbid it and thus she is fed through a tube.

You can only pull the plug if a person is dependent on a plug. This person is not, she can survive just fine independent of machinery.

If quality of life is the determining factor, who decides what life is unfit to live?


365 posted on 03/20/2005 9:33:25 PM PST by thoughtomator (Sick already of premature speculation on the 2008 race)
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To: thoughtomator

So nobody gave her food this whole time for her to eat normally? That doesn't make sense.


370 posted on 03/20/2005 9:36:38 PM PST by notigar
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To: thoughtomator
You are wrong on the facts. Terri can in fact eat food but her husband forbid it and thus she is fed through a tube.

I don't buy this. I have seen the quotes that confirm what you are saying but I have dealt with many nursing homes and hospitals. For a facility to deny oral feedings to someone with the ability to swallow would take a tremendous conspiracy. Looking at her videos I would think she's a very high aspiration risk.

386 posted on 03/20/2005 9:43:20 PM PST by Randjuke
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