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To: winstonchurchill
... What has been decided is that the husband can decide that no extraordinary means may be used to force feed her to keep her (in some very limited sense) "alive."

Incorrect. The 'court' has declared that no one is allow to give her a spoon either. Her family is forbidden to even feed her jello. why? is that 'extraordinary means'?

605 posted on 03/16/2005 7:46:07 PM PST by eccentric (a.k.a. baldwidow)
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To: eccentric; Happy2BMe; EternalVigilance

The 'court' has declared that no one is allow to give her a spoon either. Her family is forbidden to even feed her jello.

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606 posted on 03/16/2005 7:55:21 PM PST by ApesForEvolution (I just took a Muhammad and wiped my Jihadist with Mein Koran...come and get me nutbags.)
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To: eccentric
WC: ... What has been decided is that the husband can decide that no extraordinary means may be used to force feed her to keep her (in some very limited sense) "alive."

E: Incorrect. The 'court' has declared that no one is allow to give her a spoon either. Her family is forbidden to even feed her jello. why? is that 'extraordinary means'?

Please read my sentence again: "What has been decided is that the husband can decide that no extraordinary means may be used to force feed her to keep her (in some very limited sense) 'alive.'" The question is who is the decision-maker.

Can you not see that, if the right of the husband is sustained and he decides that ending nutritional maintenance is appropriate, allowing others to countermand the effect of the instruction would undermine the first two decisions? The 'no spoon' and 'no jello' decisions flow from the first determinations, i.e. the husband's right to make the decision and the nature of the decision he makes.

628 posted on 03/16/2005 9:12:18 PM PST by winstonchurchill
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