Tag: Dementia patients (slow starvation)

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
February 5, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Dementia patients (slow starvation), Euthanasia by starvation, Minimal Comfort Feeding (MCF), VSED advance directive}

Will We Starve Dementia Patients in Slow Motion?

_{There is a proposal on the table to barely feed — i.e., malnourish — dementia patients who have previously signed a directive} _{Wesley J. Smith
February 5, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Proponents argue that the patient should be bound by the directive even if he wants to eat and drink; this softens the public up for death by lethal injection. Read More ›