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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(frozen) BWAHAHAHA!

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Hello, insulin only happens to be the most vital hormone in the human metabolic process. Without it, the cells CANNOT absorb glucose, and that's what the cells use as their energy source. Don't believe me? Look it up. There are literally thousands of medical sources for you to choose from.

Without insulin at all, you'd die, regardless of whatever other disease you might or might not have. A person whose body does not produce insulin at all, and who does not have access to any form of external, synthesised insulin, can literally starve to death no matter how much food they might consume. I should know, because I've had Type I Diabetes longer than you've even been alive.

The pancreas of a healthy human produces insulin. Banting merely synthesised an artificial form of it for use in people with Diabetes.

You are clearly a tad confused about the differences between the various types of Diabetes. While you are certainly not the only citizen in the Country of Ignorance where this is concerned, you might consider doing a smidge more fact-checking before you go posting like this, because you are unfortunately probably about to receive the combined wrath of numerous people with Diabetes who are utterly fed-up with non-Diabetics who think they know more about the disease than people who actually HAVE it.

*buzz* Thank you for playing, but I'm afraid you are NOT our grand prize winner this evening.