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To: LindyBill who wrote (107350)	4/2/2005 5:44:03 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Not a Schiavo comment but along the same line. One of my fishing buddies and a guy I have coffee with every day, his wife has cancer. He's in his late 70s and she's in her early 60s and they have an adopted son who's 14 and his grandson. The wife has been fighting cancer for 15 years, cured, came back, over and over. She went to Mayos and they did an operation 2 weeks ago that might have cured it but didn't. She's now in a hospice with a right to die thing signed. No food and no water although she gets some moisture in her oxygen to keep from getting the dry pipes and not suffocating. She also has a glass or water and a small towel for her lips. She can barely walk but can talk and is lucid. She also has morphine patches if she wants to use them. She'll probably starve quickly as she hasn't been able to hold food down for months and is half her normal weight. Her husband says that any time she wants something she'll get it, drugs, water or food. Now that is what I call respecting a person's right to die.