The point that somehow is being missed here is why are people being imprsioned indefinately aginst internation law and tortured, also against international law???

As fir death, hey, how does one define death... Some would argue that in terms of ones spirit and being that once deprived of any quality of life or chance for quality of like that you are, in essence, dead... Now, I'm not sayin' that I believe that but I'm not sayin' I don't but there does come a time in the diein' process where folks give in... I can see how a tortured, imprisoned person might reach this point even if biologically their body might hold out another 30 or even 50 years...

By now most folks here in Mudcat have or soon will be part of a friend or relative's "end of life" and it is quite sobering... Havin' gone thru it with my late wife, Judy, who died in our home 7 years ago of cancer, I understand that part of "letting go" and when I think of folks in Guantanemo, yeah, I can see how folks might be there spiritually and emotionally...

As fir the rightness or wrongness of force feedin' these folks, hey, unless you are going to give them any level of hope it is cruel to keep them alive... Kinda reminds me a readin' a few years back where an inmate was on death row and tried to hang himself and every effort was made to save him, so he could be put to death????

Yeah, the discussion that should be takin' place is why my country thinks it is above international law???

Bobert