…and the right to refuse medical treatment, at Bioethics Discussion Blog.
Where was the patients physician? Where was the ethics committee to help educate the patient and physician (and, by the way, the viewing public) on the well established ethics and law? Where was the advocate of the disabled, the rehabilitation therapist to provide the patient with factual information of what could yet be done to help her live maybe a worthwhile life if she elected not to turn off the ventilator? Where was the chaplain to support her spiritually during this difficult decision-making time and perhaps get an understanding of her religious motivations? It certainly didn’t require a friend to facilitate her death if this was not a lapse of reality. ..Maurice.
