[MarMema]

And this is exactly what should be alarming every single American. A person killed by a court ordering no food or fluids in any manner.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Figure how many days elapse between the feeding tube removed and Terri's demise (if it occurs, Lord forbid).

Then, in the next death penalty case in the USA, agitate in another state that food and water be removed for the same amount of time from the prisoner prior to his execution.

There would be an emergency ruling by a Federal Court (probably upheld by USSC), that this cannot be done to a human being.

The KEY would be to get the ruling that it cannot be done to a "human being", and not just "a death row inmate condemned to die" (as I am sure the libs would prefer).

If something was on the books, maybe it would prevent this travesty from happening in the future.