King, you know that I am a nurse.
I have participated in DNR orders, I have turned ventilators off. I have lived through both sides of the issue here.
I also find the issue of "prevention of re-evaluation" damnable.
I also find the prevention of any therapy for spoon feeding damnable.
I also find the pretense of dehydrating/starving an adult with a healthy body as painless beyond abhorent.
I have with held food an fluids on patients that were in the process of dying. It was never the deciding factor.
Usually it was done to prevent aspiration or because every vein in their body's were used up and the patient/or family said no more sticks.
It was the last thing you did, not the first.
I resent the debasement of the Art of Medicine .
Well said. Thank you.