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To: Brian Kopp DPM

Have you ever personally and physically dealt with someone during end of life care? If you have, you’d know that attempting to force (and I say force because many refuse) food and water on a terminally ill person can hasten their death.


44 posted on 06/12/2014 4:38:38 PM PDT by coop71 (Posting from Iceland.)
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To: coop71

Yes. I work for a hospice provider so I’m very familiar with when food and water becomes overly burdensome at end of life versus when its taken away simply to hasten death. The latter is far more common these days than the former, unfortunately.


47 posted on 06/12/2014 5:01:23 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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