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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
This thread seems like a self-help group for people who have done that very thing to a loved one, quite honestly.

Thanks for presuming, but it's quite the opposite, actually. My family was asked whether we wanted to remove a feeding tube from my father. We said no. He continued to receive nutrition by tube until he died of other causes. Sorry to burst your bubble - or disprove your theory.

Of course, my father hadn't signed a living will indicating one way or the other whether he would want the feeding tube so, as his spouse, it was up to my mother to decide.

This is not a self-help thread. This is a break from the hyperbole, hysteria, meanspiritedness, unchristian attitudes and false information running rampant elsewhere.

298 posted on 03/29/2005 10:24:38 AM PST by mountaineer
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To: mountaineer
Sorry to burst your bubble - or disprove your theory.

You didn't. I was referring to people who actually made the decision.

Sounds like your mother made the call here, not you.

Would your decision have been different?

334 posted on 03/29/2005 10:35:29 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Ghoul Power!)
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