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To: Fishtalk
I must do the stupid and correct my own post.

My father did NOT have his feeding tube removed. The hospital would not do it. He lived a week after his heart attack while he was in a coma with no brain activity. But he DID have a feeding tube. We were not even asked if we wanted to remove his feeding tube so I don't know how this woman's husband gets to demand this.

97 posted on 02/20/2005 10:31:54 PM PST by Fishtalk (Once a liberal and victim of all the spin. Ask me to interpret.)
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To: Fishtalk
We were not even asked if we wanted to remove his feeding tube so I don't know how this woman's husband gets to demand this.

The Judges are ignoring existing laws down there. She can eat orally too, but the Judge won't let her.

Florida law statue:
765.309 Mercy killing or euthanasia not authorized; suicide distinguished.--

(1) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to condone, authorize, or approve mercy killing or euthanasia, or to permit any affirmative or deliberate act or omission to end life other than to permit the natural process of dying.

137 posted on 02/21/2005 7:16:00 AM PST by bjs1779 (" It is unlikely that Terri currently needs the feeding tube." Examination by Dr. Hammesfahr 9/12/02)
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