Carrying cards to avoid being "Terri Schiavoed"

Some Catholic patients are carrying cards asking food and nutrition to continue even if they are brain dead:

The Observer in the UK reported Sunday that Catholics in the UK have taken to carrying special ID cards informing doctors that they do not wish to be deprived of food and fluids in the case of admission to hospital.

In a growing worldwide trend, doctors in the UK consider what used to be routine care–administration of nutrition and hydration, by artificial means if necessary–to be “treatment” which can be refused or denied.

(via Gold-Plated Witch on Wheels)

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