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Originally Posted by Loryn-Adult.com
Life support deals with the respiratory system and heart compressions. You have basic life support, meaning you give someone mouth to mouth and pump their heart to keep the blood circulating, you have advance life support where you have a machine pump the heart and push air into the lungs. Terri is not on life support. She is disabled.
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They are feeding her thru a tube to support her life, therefore she's on life support.
Main Entry: life-support
Pronunciation: -"s&-pOrt, -port
Function: adjective
: providing support necessary to sustain life; especially : of or relating to a system providing such support <life-support equipment>