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Re: LIVING WILL
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Kathy Du Bois <[log in to unmask]>
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Echurch-USA The Electronic Church <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:45:15 -0500
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Brad & Paul,
The thing that kind of scares me is having someone give permission to
allow me to starve to death as happens in too many cases today.  I may
not want heroic intervention, but I don't think that I would want the
simple feeding tube removed.  I wouldn't mind having a do not resuscitate
order placed on my chart either if I was pretty far gone, but from what
I've heard, having the feeding tube removed to allow starvation to take
place is a pretty painful and slow way to go.  It can take from seven to
fourteen days and I just don't think that that's right.
Maybe I'm just cowardly Kathy, but there you have it!

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