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To: New Jersey Realist
Why did you share rhis story about your mother? Was it for affirmation? And why did you feel guilty? Was it because you thought you did something wrong?

If a person can no longer assimilate food (because their processes of digestion and absorption have shut down), or if feeding provides negligible nutritive benefit, but causes severe discomfort and pain (nausea, vomiting, infection or abcesses at the point of tube entry, risk of aspiration/suffocation) and death from an underlying cause is in any case imminent-- in these cases, futile, burdensome attempts to provide nutrients can be discontinued.

If such was your mother's case, then you had no need to continue attempted feeding, and you ought not to feel guilty.

Because I don't know anything about your mother's condition, that's all I have to say. I hope you may be at peace.

32 posted on 08/23/2011 3:02:31 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("Either weÂ’re all fully human, or none of us is." - Tax-chick)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thank you, Mrs. D. That was very kind of you.


36 posted on 08/23/2011 3:09:06 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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