"We're not talking about the miscarriage of the law that happened in Florida. Not even in Florida is it legal to dehyrdate someone to death."
It is legal to dehydrate someone to death if they have requested this to be done on their behalf should they fall into a coma or PVS like state in which they are unlikely to ever recover and have stated to be pulled from life support should such a situation such as this occur. Do you really think Terri is the first to die in this manner?
We are talking about Terri, tho, I'm sure that this has happened before and does happen. It doesn't make it right and if they are starving people to death and dehydrating people to death when those people could orally ingest stuff then it's against the law. The conspiracy of silence in this matter has to end and the hoodlums prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as Kevorkian was.
They can legally only remove the feeding tube. I don't believe they should even be able to do that but right now that is the law in Florida for a person with PVS.
And we don't even know that Terri was PVS or if it was a misdiagnosis.
If a person really wants to die, then nothing and no one outside of God is going to make them live. I think Terri has proved that she wanted to live!
It is NOT legal to dehydrate someone to death in Florida. It is legal to remove their feeding tube ... though it obviously wasn't in this case. The judge's order went beyond removal of the feeding tube to removal of all hydration and nutrition. His barring food and water of any kind was clearly unlawful.
The people who have had to do this shouldn't feel bad or guilty.