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To: Ilaine who wrote (106956)3/31/2005 5:45:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (2) of 793685
 
These laws that give health care providers and families the ability to cause death without prosecution are contrary to thousands of years of established law.


No, CB, there has never been a standard that imposed treatment. Nobody was ever required to have surgery even when not having it would mean their certain death. Children and those not compos mentis have always had such decisions made by their guardians. There's no other way to do it.

What is new is the technology that vastly increases the number of cases where a person can be kept alive for long periods without being conscious or compos mentis. For most of history, if a person was too sick to regain consciousness and take food in the normal manner, then they went without food and they died, and that was that.
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