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To: malakhi
When it is the wish of the patient to decline further medical treatment.

Food and water is a basic human need. To not provide them constitutes murder.

518 posted on 07/07/2005 12:15:22 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
Food and water is a basic human need. To not provide them constitutes murder.

Not in the state of Florida. Under these circumstances, and under the supervision of a physician, removing the feeding tube is a standard if sad medical treatment. You don't like it, change the law according to the procedures established.

558 posted on 07/07/2005 1:19:18 PM PDT by highball ("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Food and water is a basic human need. To not provide them constitutes murder.

You can offer it. You can't force someone to take it. And you can't forcibly install a feeding tube or keep it in against someone's will. That is a fundamental violation of our constitutional rights.

560 posted on 07/07/2005 1:20:58 PM PDT by malakhi
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