[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.

[Brian Kopp DPM]

Actually I don't disagree with that.

Good. Then you agree that an IV tube is simply a dirt cheap method to deliver a drink of water that last couple inches, and thus is rarely if ever extraordinary care.