New York Times Says Caregivers Should be Forced to Starve Dementia Patients to Death

First, bioethicists said people should be able to refuse being “hooked up to machines” even if that meant almost certain death. Good. Then, they pushed that meme farther, arguing that the right of refusal (including by surrogates) should also include nourishment by tube so the patient dehydrates to death. Give them an inch . . .-- More...