[Brian Kopp DPM]

“As far as removing an IV to dehydrate a person to death, you’re right that’s not assisted suicide, it’s MURDER.”

It’s no different than withholding dialysis or a vent, no different at all.

If you think that withholding basic food and water is no different than withholding dialysis or a vent, then you have no grasp of basic medical ethics and we therefore have no common ground for debate or discussion.

Food and water are basic human rights, not medical interventions that can be arbitrarily withheld simply because we want to hasten the death of a patient.

Debate withholding dialysis or a vent separately from withdrwaing food and water. Food and water can only be morally withheld if the patient is physiologically unable to assimilate them.

When dehydration becomes the promiximate cause of death in a patient who is able to assimilate it, that is simply murder. Its not a withdrawal of a medical treatment, it is active euthanasia.

[RC one]

Food and water are basic human rights, not medical interventions that can be arbitrarily withheld simply because we want to hasten the death of a patient...Food and water can only be morally withheld if the patient is physiologically unable to assimilate them

Actually I don't disagree with that. Not at all. but I'm the evil leftist culture of death monster here so fire away anyways.

[gracie1]

I agree with this statement. It makes a big difference. You are absolutely on target.