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To: Dan B. who wrote (226075)	3/24/2005 2:47:33 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575047

The testimony of "the nurse" is supported by other nurses and observers such as 2 out of 5 Doctors. Testimony as to Terri's real wishes is supported by testimony of Friends and Family. Dubois's point was that the family lawyers brought up the wrong issue, and should have spoke to her real wishes as opposed to her condition. Why you worry about "conservative Blogs" here is beyond me. I haven't read any at all lately (and very little, ever). Have you any comment concerning the method of killing her? It does seem to me very wrong to starve her. What are we, Christian Scientists? It would seem to be cruel and unusual punishment were she not in a vegetative state. However, the MDs indicate she feels nothing because her celebral cortex has turned to liquid. Just as she is completely unconscious of the feeding tube in her stomach when it is inserted.......her eyes continued to move back and forth randomly and she continued to wear her perpetual 'smile' while the process was underway......she will not be conscious of the feeding tube having been premanently removed. My cousin had a patient who had a heart attack that rendered her completely paralyzed. She could not open even her eyes nor communicate in any way with the outside world. However, her brain functions were still intact and she was not in a coma. Her prognosis was very bad. It was surmised that long before she died, she would go insane. Her family desperately wanted to have her taken off life support. My cousin desperately wanted to oblige them. But the law forbade it. He believed her dying was a cruelty beyond imagination. Finally, after six months, she passed on. ted