I have spent an eternity saying this.

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Terri Schiavo is not on life support. She does not use a ventilator. I don't know where that story started, but here it ends. She is not hooked up to any machines. She uses a feeding tube. That is not life support. Taking her off the feeding tube will cause her to - slowly - starve or dehydrate.

There is evidence that she reacts to things around her. There is also evidence that her condition would be drastically improved if the money from the settlement had gone towards her treatment instead of her husband's court bills.

So please, base your opinions off of accurate information.

And now, I will let other people talk about being in situations where they were believed dead, and post those links (links I've posted before) about other people who nearly died because "after all, she's not going to recover, might as well pull the plug now" - and at the time, they were conscious.

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Its a long sotry how I found this comment.. but

I have type 1 diabetes. If you took my insulin away I would die in a matter of Days. There is no other way to treat type 1 diabetes I'm afriad. Type 2 is a different matter, and its perfectly possible for many people with type 2 to treat their condition without insulin.

Insulin IS a basic, and something EVERYONE needs to survive. My body doesn't make insulin therefore I need to inject it.

Check your facts.