Oh, now you make me laugh, Howard.  As long as they get appropriate nursing
care.  Yes.  We are all very comfortable if we get appropriate nursing care.
This has not been my recent experience.
And anyway, how would a patient in TS situation be able to indicate that
they found it uncomfortable?
No, I am arguing about it again.  Forget it.  It still gets me going if I
think too much about it.

Tweed

I agree completely.  It seems to me that this paragraph should answer a lot
of questions - and arguments about what was appropriate:

"Schiavo's brain weighed about half of what a healthy human brain would,
Thogmartin said. "Her brain was profoundly atrophied ... This damage was
irreversible."

Joy

Precisely!  Mere physical "existence" (animal or human) with
no ability to function as a living being aware of being
alive is no life at all!

Those for and those against in the Schiavo controversy are
unlikely to change their minds, so please, everybody, let's
put it to rest!  We seem to have gotten rid of the flood of
gibberish posts (I hope my e-mail to Newsguys helped) -
let's not set up a "flood" of our own with a fruitless
revival of our conflicting views on something that, for
better or worse, is now part of the past.