She was not dying..she was profoundly brain damaged...and what I think of as being in a pvs is not what I would call what I saw onthe few TV clips I saw..of course I might not be talking about the official definition...I was very inclined to side with the husband up to a point, but there are too many questions..I don't know the truth of the matter but it has been claimed he wouldn't allow window shades open, feeding her when she was able to swallow, taking her outside in the sunshine...we are talking as though she were dying. She was not.   We do not need fancy machines to drip water into someone. It does not have to be IV. I am not for artificially prolonging life, especially terminal life, especially where there is severe pain, which there should never be..if morphine doesn't stop it, there are surgeries that could...but we have to know the facts and talk through the facts...that this is a situation of a handicapped, permanently handicapped person being forced to die of thirst. I have studied neuroanatomy etc. and I don't know what is what here..but I surely would not claim that someone with brain damage could not feel pain...has she had even simple tests to determine that? g