Dear Frank, Food and water is a very basic human need, (I have to tube feed my own daughter) In the case of Terri whatever happened to her body/brain did not kill her; only her ability to communicte her wishes, and her ability to feed herself was lost. Death would be ensured without nutrition, and in a most horrible manner. In my opinion (I am very familiar with death by stavation having seen much of it in third world countries) kindness would be a massive dose of morphine, but illegal for anyone in our system to administer; and that is the issue for me legislated starvation is not in my opinion a humane death for anyone.

Yours, Aye. Dave