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To: cherry
I must have missed it in the article where they said they would deny dementia patients food and water...I thought they were saying that they would not run IV fluids or tube feedings....big, big difference...

No difference, whether it arrives by spoon or a small tube, its still food and water either way. Its still a basic human right.

No amount of verbal engineering, of attempts to redefine food and water as "medical treatments" that can arbitrarily be withdrawn, will ever change that reality.

And if anyone wants to claim dehydration is a "comfortable" or humane way to go, lets lock you in a 98* room with zero humidity and no water for a couple days, just so you can experience a bit of that comfort.

55 posted on 07/16/2012 8:03:23 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: Dr. Brian Kopp

No amount of verbal engineering, of attempts to redefine food and water as “medical treatments” that can arbitrarily be withdrawn, will ever change that reality.

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So you’re of the opinion that surgically implanting a tube so that a person incapable of the pupillary light reflex — let alone swallowing — can have artificial nutrition pumped directly into their stomachs is not a “medical treatment”?

Kiss goodbye to your credibility on this issue amongst anyone with a lick of common sense.


79 posted on 07/17/2012 7:30:56 AM PDT by gzzimlich
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