tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post7758059706045628290..comments2024-03-28T13:26:59.030-04:00Comments on Euthanasia Prevention Coalition: BC Court decision in the Bentley "feeding" case (today).Alex Schadenberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-58885716591904006242014-02-03T20:45:58.732-05:002014-02-03T20:45:58.732-05:00The distinction between "artificial" fee...The distinction between "artificial" feeding and "normal" feeding is rather artificial. If a person is unable to swallow, for instance, he or she ought not to be denied food because the mode of feeding requires more intermediate steps (which are not in themselves immoral) than if he were able to swallow. Feeding a person with certain conditions, or a person who is unconscious necessarily involves different elements in the process but the fundamentals of the action are the same. Unless there is some evil (objective) involved in the mode of feeding, the moral requirement to feed a person, any person, is paramount and cannot be overruled. And a previous instruction by a person not to feed him in a given set of circumstances ought never to be acknowledged or enforced by a man-made law as it is a violation of the Natural Law. There are also several other reasons why such laws ought never be enacted including it being an effective charter for murder. Lyndahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01714204002726632689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-79208990182015779582014-02-03T16:41:48.682-05:002014-02-03T16:41:48.682-05:00Dear James:
Your comments are not possible consid...Dear James:<br /><br />Your comments are not possible considering that Margaret Bentley is incompetent and the family was asking to withdraw normal feeding (not artificial feeding). Canadian law requires the provision of the Basic Necessaries of Life.Alex Schadenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07649977828342637842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9216787076261944467.post-47414991482010944012014-02-03T07:46:58.629-05:002014-02-03T07:46:58.629-05:00With careful safeguards, what do we think about en...With careful safeguards, what do we think about ending the feeding of patients with dementia? Might this ever become a choice we would make for ourselves? Here is a chapter that offers 12 safeguards for making wise decisions about patients whose meaningful lives are over: http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/CY-MD-ALZ.html.James Parkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11237618704966568829noreply@blogger.com