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To: Middle Aged White Male

Forcing air into lungs or food into a stomach is morally the same as forcing food into a stomach. If there is no hope that the treatment will lead to improvement in the patient, it is perfectly moral to remove the treatment.


42 posted on 04/29/2005 11:10:55 AM PDT by DManA
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To: DManA
Forcing air into lungs or food into a stomach is morally the same as forcing food into a stomach. If there is no hope that the treatment will lead to improvement in the patient, it is perfectly moral to remove the treatment.

I’ve done volunteer work for years with handicapped children whose sole source of nourishment comes via a feeding tube.

I don’t share your belief that it would be perfectly moral to remove the tube from their stomach. I don’t think they do either.

44 posted on 04/29/2005 11:19:03 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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