[T'wit]

>> they all agree on this point: "If you take tube feeding out of PVS patients, you always offer them food and fluids by mouth. Otherwise it's passive euthanasia. If you offer it and they don't take them, the disease has killed them. If you don't offer them, you've killed them."

Eh? If they are PVS, how do you "offer" them food and fluids by mouth?

I think you kill them when you take them off the tube, period. This "offer them food and fluid" business is just a cop out for ducking your responsibility to the patient. Statistically, SOME of those patients -- maybe all of them, we don't know -- are "in there." SOME of those patients -- maybe all, we don't know this either -- will feel pain and die in agony. Some of them would recover if they weren't dehydrated to death.

[tutstar]

Some of them would recover if they weren't dehydrated to death.

The author of this article was in a coma for a while and recovered.