On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:03:23 -0800 Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> writes:
> >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.
Well, if one can call living without a functioning cerebral cortex, being "healthy."
>
> Marta
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