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To: Lane3 who wrote (78642)	11/5/2003 5:52:03 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 82486

You've known me long enough to know that I would never create any laws to take medical decisions out of the hands of the parties and their doctors. Really, truly? You would allow a person to commit suicide, which is a medical decision, without societal interference? If yoiu had an unconscious patient you would allow a person with a durable medical power of attorney and a doctor to make the decision to kill off the person even if they had a hope of recovery? Before you say no doctor would ever do that, keep in mind that doctors are human, most are excellent but some are unethical, and if the unconscious person had a large estate (let's say 50 million) and the person with the dpa was the sole heir, are you willing to commit to the fact that he or she can't find a doctor anywhere in the US who wouldn't euthanaise for a cool $10 million? And of course, charging them with murder is taking the decision out of the hands of the parties and their doctors. Don't you believe that there should be some laws preventing some things that a doctor and patient can agree to, realizing that incompetent patients can agree through a durable medical power of attorney?

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