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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (106970)3/31/2005 6:11:47 PM
From: aladin   of 793859
 
Nadine,

The "high tech" included not just the tube, but the medical knowledge needed to set up the arrangement, and the antisepsis and anti-biotics needed to keep it going. Did anyone live on a feeding tube even 60 years ago?

Yes - actually the feeding tube has been around for a while.

We can argue Terri forever, but there are some facts from this:

o Most of us would not want to live indefinitely in a coma or PVS state
o Most of us agree with a DNR when terminal
o Most of us would withdraw extraordinary measures for ourselves when hopeless
o Most of us would want palliative care at the end

What cannot be decided is a definition of extraordinary and palliative care.

And what we vehemently disagree on is:

o Assisted suicide
o Euthanasia

John
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