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I agree that forced starvation is not the best answer - euthanasia would be kinder. But until they legalize euthanasia, we should keep this poor woman's soul tethered to her useless body because it makes the parents feel better? The parents aren't just objecting to the method of death, they're laboring under the delusion that this woman communicates and could be taught to take care of herself. Fine - give them the chance to be proven wrong. But if it turns out that she IS in fact a vegetable and can't learn anything, as almost all of the doctors not paid by the parents have said, it seems to me that starvation would be a far kinder fate than lingering for the rest of your life in a vegetative state. Her higher order brain functions are gone. She will experience physical discomfort but won't suffer - the part of the brain that interprets stimuli as "suffering" on an emotional level is gone. (To be fair, she's not suffering now, either, for the exact same reason.) None of this would be an issue if legislators would quit being so bullheaded and legalize euthanasia for cases like this.
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