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Very little food or water passed her lips in a while but NOT BECAUSE SHE COULD NOT EAT OR DRINK. It was because it cost more to feed her via mouth than it did to stick the feeding tube in. Her husband controlled her settlement, you know that settlement that she won to have money for rehab but never got it. But Terri could eat and drink. If she could not they would have had to have a tube in her mouth to catch her saliva before she choked on it and they did not have to, also her parents (the few times the husband let them come to visit) gave her things to drink. The judge demanded nothing to her mouth. I think you seem like a reasonable person but I just don’t get how you can think nothing of a government demanding a mother and father can not give food or water to their daughter. We don’t even do this with animals we don’t want or killers. She is the only known case where a judge said no food or water via the mouth. There was a big fight for her to have a last communion and she was able to have that so she did have a drip of grape juice and a cracker before she died. If I remember right it took 15 days to starve her to death. that you could be ok with that really bothers me.