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It seems to me the Catholic Church should pay for the enormous costs to society involved in keeping people living for decades. I don't recall anything about feeding tubes in the bible.

Yes what is hardly mentioned on these threads is that it takes $80,000 a month to pay for her care. More spent in a month than most households with children earn in a year. That sounds like heroic treatment to me. Then these same people will go on other threads and whine how states across the country are raising taxes and won't cut spending.

I'd like to know where that $80,000 a month figure came from, as other statements about the hospice put her care at considerably less than that. Do you actually believe it costs $2600 a day to have someone in a bed in a hospice??
From family.org:
The Cost of Hospice Care
Hospice care is the most cost-effective way of caring for a terminally-ill person. In the U.S., the approximate estimated cost for hospital care is $1,756 per day, $284 per day at nursing facilities, and averages about $100 per day for at-home hospice care and $200 per day in a private facility. Hospice care is covered under Medicare, Medicaid (in some states), most private-insurance groups, and HMOs. Families may be asked to meet some uncovered costs. However, hospices rarely, if ever, turn down patients for financial reasons. Public and community support through donations, grants, memorial gifts and fund-raising events assist to help cover the cost of care.
Even if you jack up those figures some on the assumption they may be a few years old, you are still not anywhere near the astronomical number of $80,000 a month.

Feeding tubes are a huge big government, raising taxes issue. At 80,000 per year, if Terri were to live 30 more years, at a total of 45 years, you do the math. Well over 3 million dollars to the government.

So you hav eth emorality that says we ought murder all the
people who we think are an inconvienence? -Seems Hitler shared that demonic morality.And he at least had the decency to off himself before he could be captured and
brought up on charges for his WAR crimes.

You obviously have not priced Nursing Homes in a while.

Florida Suncoast Hospice is a FOR PROFIT business that is overcharging Medicaid for patients and is using those Medicaid dollars to terminate life. That is ILLEGAL. Medicaid does not pay for Abortion and Medicaid does not pay for Euthanasia.

In the end, when all this is sorted out, Terri's death will have been needless, but there will be no way to bring her back.

Well, if 'contribution' to society determines society's obligation to you, then please forward a check to the USTreasury for ALL your share of the Pentagon/NSA/FBI budgets out there to protect just you, sweetie.

Next, cough up your share of your State/local police, etc., etc.