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To: Luis Gonzalez
Cboldt: "That is false. The decision is the patient's alone."
Luis: Please, don't insult the intelligence of the people reading this thread.

Suit yourself. I read Cruzan, and the Shiavo material, and all of it is phrased in terms of respecting the patient's wishes. Your blather that my spouse can her assert her wishes over mine notwithstanding, she can't.

682 posted on 03/24/2005 9:05:27 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cboldt

Your statement is not true, the decision to remove or continue life support, in absence of explicit documentation from the patient, falls on the next of kin.

If no document exists stating Terri's wish not to live being sustained by artificial means, then no document exists to the opposite either.


693 posted on 03/24/2005 9:08:25 AM PST by Luis Gonzalez (Some people see the world as they would want it to be, effective people see the world as it is.)
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