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Hastening Death by Stopping Eating and Drinking: Hope Wechkin, Thaddeus Pope, & Josh Briscoe

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Patients are, they can live for months or even years with comfort feeding only because they, they’re being fed very carefully, very diligently, very lovingly by staff members. Who do you give informed consent to? Past self or current self? And especially with eating and drinking, like when I think about it, these are not.

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