If anyone was working in a health care field and a patient was about to

Valerie5555

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Fri Oct-24-03 12:08 AM
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If anyone was working in a health care field and a patient was about to

be "Schiavoed" (food /water withdrawn or on the verge of being starved / dehydrated, usually by means of the "pulling" of the feeding tube) and the patient in question gave indication that they didn't want to be "offed," especially NOT in that way, maybe they should e mail their state's governor and have him/her/ or them do a Jeb Bush for maybe it was worth a try.

I also think hell, if it worked for Terry Schiavo............. why not???????????????????????????? :)

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Wonk

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Fri Oct-24-03 12:20 AM
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1. If she could and did indicate her desire then this'd be a non-issue.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=569945
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=568819

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Valerie5555

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Fri Oct-24-03 12:21 AM
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2. Ditto if he or she left a living will

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Wonk

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Fri Oct-24-03 12:36 AM
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3. Which she didn't, and since you seem pretty familiar with this already

then why ask in the first place?

Without extreme medical intervention she would have simply died years ago, btw, without all the legal melodrama (something like 19 judges so far have agreed with the husband's right to decide in this case, iirc) and Jeb interfering to further prolong her existence.

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