Reply #88: My grandmother is in the later stages of Alzheimer's...

[Connie_Corleone]

AND has a feeding tube. She can still eat by mouth but not that much and she can speak. She had a stroke so it's hard for her to speak clearly. She can still understand what people are saying to her.

That doesn't mean she's ready to die. If she was in a vegetative state where she was basically gone except her bodily functions, then the family would have to talk about what to do.

Your stepfather's situation and my grandmother's situation are entirely different from Terri Schiavo's situation. Her cerebral cortex is gone. She's basically not there anymore. Her wish was not to live if she was in a state like that. Her husband is trying to honor her wish.

What's so hard to understand about that?