A cheeseburger, fries and a shake are food and drink when we feed ourselves or cut them up into little bites and use a spoon to feed our children. They don’t miraculously become something other than a cheeseburger, fries and a shake just because we use some other method to deliver them. Food and water are always basic human rights, always ordinary care, and always mandatory in Christian medical ethics unless the body cannot assimilate them.
If they are going to be stopped, the question must be asked: “What is the proximate cause of death?”
In this case, will Casey die from the dementia or the sepsis, or will he die from dehydration leading to blood volume loss and organ failure?
If the latter them he will die from euthanasia, not from the withdrawal of “life support.”
How did people die before the machines took over. I think when you are in your last days, you are better off going to your eternal reward, then lying there comatose while someone fills you full of crap just so you can “live” another miniscule amount of time. People insist on this in hopeless cases just to raise the hospital bills.
I'm with you on this.
If his heart is beating on its own and he's breathing without the need for a ventilator, then God is keeping him alive.
If you withhold food and water, then you are killing him.
Regardless of what the doctors say, we have no way of knowing whether someone is still there or not. So, the only truly compassionate thing to do is to make them as comfortable as we can, for as long as necessary, until God decides it's time for them to come home.