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To: Jim Noble
some anti-Terri callers on radio talk shows hint that they've withdrawn hydration from a relative This happens hundreds of times every day. Ordinarily, it causes no controversy. It certainly isn;t somethying people are reticent to discuss.

I would be. I'm not going to order the starving of anyone under my care.

1,210 posted on 03/19/2005 5:49:15 PM PST by freedomdefender
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To: freedomdefender
This is what natural death means:

1) Stop getting up.

2) Stop eating.

3) Stop drinking.

4) Stop waking up.

5) Stop breathing.

When someone who is "under your care" enters this sequence, I dare you to put in a feeding tube.

THAT'S barbarism.

1,213 posted on 03/19/2005 5:52:22 PM PST by Jim Noble
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