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To: Dave S
>A yawning ethical, legal, and theological gulf exists between allowing someone to die and acting to hasten their death, a la Dr. Kevorkian.

Yes, it does. However, allowing someone to die, does not include withholding food and water from the patient. Starvation and dehydration are deliberate acts which cause the death of the person. I love the way the Culture of Death is trying to brainwash the general public into an acceptance of the above-mentioned deliberate murder as a passive act.

18 posted on 10/27/2003 8:28:12 AM PST by Darnright
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To: Darnright
However, allowing someone to die, does not include withholding food and water from the patient.

Not with a feeding tube though.

On the other hand, with sufficient therapy, Terri might very well learn to feed herself, and that's another matter altogether. I have seen it done with what were considered hopeless parapalegics, and I understand it has not been tried for Terri.

19 posted on 10/27/2003 8:35:28 AM PST by Held_to_Ransom
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