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Re: Appeals court: Terri Schiavo parents cannot intervene
For those wondering why withold food and water when dying, I have information from my Nursing book as to why this is done:
"Contrary to earlier teaching, hydration is no longer advised when a terminally ill client facing imminent death is dehydrated. Although many nurses have been taught that dehydration causes suffering and that skilled care requires hydration, it is necessary to readjust this thinking. Research has shown that terminally ill clients in end-stage dehydration experience less discomfort than clients recieving medical hydration at that stage. Hydration needlessly extends the dying process. Witholding artificial hydration and nutrition from an individual in an irreversable coma (for example) does not bring on a destructive state but rather permits an already existing fatal condition to take its natural course. When death is imminent, the moral responsibility to prolong life is outweighed by not unnecessarily burdening the dying process".
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