On self-starvation

Glenn McGee's post Dying for Food is a beautiful essay about Terri Schiavo over at bioethics.net. The following paragraph quite literally gave me chills:

"If you are wondering whether or not the Terry Schiavo who had a heart attack would have said that she would want to forego nutrition and hydration, you don't know bulimia. She had already undergone a decade of refusing food at a basic, fundamental level, in the most resolute way imaginable."

I'm not sure I can say much more about this at the moment or I'll certainly be up all night.