“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. You are clueless, absolutely clueless. what if they have come to the point where giving them IV fluids will just overwhelm their kidneys (or their lungs or their heart) and cause them to need dialysis? What do you do then mr. ethics expert? you couldn’t possible be more clueless.
Are you saying he’s clueless?
Its 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.