"If a disabled person is not terminally ill, not in a coma, and not being kept alive on life support, and they have no written directive, should or should they not be denied food and water," the poll asked.
A whopping 79 percent said the patient should not have food and water taken away while just 9 percent said yes.
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It seems to me that most of the people I have talked to who support starving Terri Shiavo to death have either had to deal with that issue with an elderly relative or greatly fear being left in a helpless condition themselves. They would rather be dead than that helpless year upon year. Yet, I have to ask, if that was your child there, not your 85 year old, incontinent, comatose aunt, would you take away food and water? Especially if your child at times seemed to recognize you and others?
---Katie
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