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A “Painless” Death?

WESLEY J. SMITH

Many who support Terri Schiavo's threatened dehydration assert that removing a feeding tube from a profoundly cognitively disabled person results in a painless and gentle ending. But is this really true? After all, it would be agonizing if you or I were locked in a room for two weeks and deprived of all food and water.

URL: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/medical_ethics/me0074.html

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