[lbo-talk] Re: terri schiavo

[Marta Russell]

>Yesterday, there was a guy on the radio confirming what my mother 
>has told me, as has a woman who had her mother and MIL in hospice 
>care. People don't really feel a whole lot of pain or hunger when 
>they're dying. They often ask, "Shouldn't I feel hungry?"  This is 
>also the case in starvation studies. The body simply shuts down and 
>doesn't feel hungry.
>

Terri's condition is not terminal.  She is not dying as an old person 
would die at the end of life.  She is a young woman completely 
healthy in those senses.

Marta
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