[ATLian]

>Me too, but I would pray that God strengthens my faith

TM, when you're in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) like Terri, you cannot pray!



>For this patient the biggest issue of sustaining her on the
>life support as someone pointed out is cost.

Msoto, from what I heard on radio and TV, there's a major difference between a person on life support and one in a PVS. A person on life support can't do some basic instinctive stuff for themself, like breath, swallow saliva, etc. So the life support does stuff like help you breath, drain your saliva so you don't drown yourself in it, etc. A person in a PVS can do these basic functions because the part of their brain that controls those functions isn't dead, so they can still breath and swallow saliva, etc. Some people in a PVS may need life support, but I heard that Terri doesn't. All she needs is the feeding tube, which is why she's in a polite nursing home instead of the ICU of a high-end hospital. I'll add a disclaimer that this is what I heard, so those with some knowledge on the brain like Coach please correct me.



>If they're going to let her die,why not then get rid of all
>the pple in their vegetable state like the ones with down
>syndrome?No lets not stop there.Lets kill all the blind and
>crippled too.How far is too far?

Boobs, 1000 such people are allowed to die every year. Also, the blind, the ones with down syndrome, etc, aren't in an irreversible PVS. In fact most do have an active life, jobs, pay taxes, etc - so I don't think your analogy is appropriate.