Shocking Report Shows Patients Being Starved to Death as Food and Water Redefined as Medical Treatment

A new report by Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) Associate Scholar Bobby Schindler sheds light on the widespread legality of euthanasia by denial of food and water as well as recent legislative attempts to redefine these basic, ordinary needs as medical treatment, calling on the medical and legal communities to bring their approach to states of diminished consciousness into line with current neuroscience and to protect vulnerable patients’ human rights. In Basic Care, Human Dignity, and Care for Medically Vulnerable Persons, Schindler examines the history and devastating effects of the designation persistent vegetative state, which he calls “one of the most arbitrary and subjectively applied diagnoses in clinical practice,” explaining: -- More....