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Sometimes, but not always. I don't want any confusion about what anyone did or did not say.
There is no straw man in the valid point I made. Slowly suffocating to death or dehydrating to death is most certainly torture. That’s just the truth, ugly as it is. If you don’t give any serious consideration to the victim, maybe you can pretend it’s not torture.
Do you equate that with removing someone from a respirator? That is, after all, precisely what I was talking about.
It takes an awful lot of pretending to “justify” killing a vulnerable person. It takes words like “euphoria” and elimination of words like “torture.” It takes pretending that the victim has as little regard for his own life as his killers do. It takes a pile of lies so high you need a ski lift to reach the top.
So what do you make of my clear, legal instructions to my wife concerning treatment should I be in that position? Do I not have the moral right to insist that she take me off a ventilator, etc? Even a feeding tube?
Are you using the removal of a respirator as a euphemism? You do know it’s possible to remove a respirator without causing torture or death, right? When I talked about slowly suffocating to death, I was talking about slowly suffocating to death. I do not equate that with being properly weaned off a respirator.
I don’t know what situation you have outlined in your advance directive. I don’t know what it has to do with Paulo Melo’s situation.