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To: malakhi; Miss Behave
You are claiming that feeding tubes are not artificial. If they aren't artificial, then what are they?

If feeding tubes are artificial and unnatural then so are pace makers, colostomies, dialysis, oxygen and on and on. Where do you draw the line? Who gets to live or die because "it's artificial"?

280 posted on 07/06/2005 9:47:09 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If you think you know what's coming next....You don't know Jack.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
If feeding tubes are artificial and unnatural then so are pace makers, colostomies, dialysis, oxygen and on and on. Where do you draw the line? Who gets to live or die because "it's artificial"?

I completely agree that all of those things are artificial.

Now, does a patient have the right to refuse any of these medical treatments? Or are we to forcibly install feeding tubes, pacemakers, etc. in those who do not want them?

It is, IMO, the patient's right to choose.

287 posted on 07/06/2005 9:50:28 PM PDT by malakhi
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