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To: Earthdweller
According to National Health Service treatment guidelines, doctors, rather than patients or their families, have the final say about providing or withholding care.

...which is totally contrary to what I have been advocating. Therefore, I fail to see why you bring up this straw man, except to confuse the issue or cause discord.

As for the proposal you posted, of course I read it, and I see that it would step in and create a presumption rather than allow a specific-case decision by those closest to the patient. Of course, I don't like the way things stand now, either (with no civilized means of relief), but I don't want to make it worse!

232 posted on 07/09/2005 8:16:41 PM PDT by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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To: Gondring
"Of course, I don't like the way things stand now, either (with no civilized means of relief), but I don't want to make it worse!"

It already is worse...the courts have already stepped in and now the AMA is making it's move. We can't stop the roll toward presumption of death without legislation so why not stop it in it's tracks while at the same time preserving the right of those who would choose to die.

235 posted on 07/09/2005 8:43:09 PM PDT by Earthdweller (US descendant of French Protestants_"Where there is life, there is hope"..Terri Schindler)
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