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Originally posted by Paradise359
I don't even really think it's euthanasia b/c her husband isn't trying to assist her in dying. W/o the feeding tube she will die anyway. She's artifically being kept alive.
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Well, in my research I learned that a case like this would still be considered euthanasia. There are two forms: active euthanasia (Dr. Kevorkian), and passive euthanasia. With passive euthanasia, it's kind of like pulling the plug on someone on life support, you take away all external interference and let nature take it's course.
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I feel so sorry for the family b/c it's a death of a family member, but I understand the husband's position. The women that they all knew & loved is gone already. Only her body still lives on.
Personally I would not want to be artifically kept alive if it meant I, as in my spirit was no longer there. I don't want to be killed but if machines are keeping me alive, I'd want live to take its course, which ends in death.
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I second that...what kind of life is she living...it's not a life, it's an existence.