[iowamomforfreedom]

I guess this means if I get deathly ill, I'll have to shop around for a non-Catholic health care provider.

Only if it's your wish to be starved and dehydrated to death.

[old and tired]

I have a question. Is it wrong not to insert a feeding tube in the first place? I guess I'm wondering if someone is at death's door and no longer feels like eating, isn't it enough to let them die comfortably, doing everything we can to make sure they are hydrated, without sticking a tube in them?

I have long believed it was Catholic doctrine that removing a feeding tube was cruel and if that was "stunning" to ethicists at Catholic Hospitals then surely those ethicists interviewed are Jesuits or some other dissenting order. But it would be surprising to me if as Catholics we are now obligated to ask for feeding tubes.

[kms61]

There are some things worse than death. IMHO existing indefinitely in a persistent vegetative state would be one of them. Speaking only for myself here, but I don't want that kind of "care."