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To: Cboldt

Are you still seriously questioning whether hundreds of people every single day have their feeding tubes disconnected?


413 posted on 03/23/2005 8:51:14 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach
Are you still seriously questioning whether hundreds of people every single day have their feeding tubes disconnected?

That is a gross mischaracterization of my question (and my doubt of the claim), by omitting the essential qualifier of denial of sustenance and hydration being the primary agent of death in those hundred of patients a day.

I easily believe that hundreds of feeding tubes are removed from patients who are otherwise terminal, that is, they are terminal even with a feeding tube. But I don't believe hundreds of deaths are caused a day by denial of food and water.

The only reasonable reading of your replies to my question will take them as assertions that you do believe hundreds of people are starved to death each day (that starvation is the primary agent of death), and that you don't find ethical or legal issue with that.

506 posted on 03/24/2005 3:36:37 AM PST by Cboldt
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