Reply #37: As it was, they treated her more shabbily and less humanely. . .

[Journeyman]

than Florida treats the condemned on death row.

Even if a person in this woman's condition "feels no pain," those around them -- both their relatives and their attendants -- certainly do feel pain and loss, and to torture them as the patient slowly expires from thirst and starvation is a particularly odious form of "cruel and unusual" behavior.

I say, if the decision's made to withhold nourishment, assuring the patient's eventual, gradual demise, then take the full measure and end all the suffering -- their's as well as those around them -- and put them down. We do no less for our animals.