[robertpaulsen]

"Doctors and nurses are certainly capable of giving a patient ice chips without risking aspiration."

Then why was Heidi Law, a nursing assistant, allowed to do it?

"another to deny ordinary medical practice such as the ice chips."

It is not ordinary medical practice to give ice chips to a PVS patient. They could aspirate and you wouldn't even know it. Why in heaven's name would you want to do this?

I'd really like to know.

[8mmMauser]

It is not ordinary medical practice to give ice chips to a PVS patient. They could aspirate and you wouldn't even know it. Why in heaven's name would you want to do this?

Wow, why that might hurt the health of someone being killed by dehydration. I guess it is important that the patient being killed be painfully killed by the slow court appointed method. But I would do it in Heaven's name.

[T'wit]

>> Why in heaven's name would you want to do this?

You answered your own question. You do it literally for heaven's sake, to relieve a helpless patient's agony.