Ragdall, I am asking this again. Why are you saying that removing the feeding tube results in a very slow, cruel death? What medical information are you basing your "fact" upon? Can you provide us with the medical evidence that unequivocally states that removing feeding tubes results in a person who is near death, suffering a very slow, cruel death? Do you know the medical protocol of what happens to a patient who has a feeding tube removed? A respirator? Hydration?

Let me ask you Ragdall, have you ever been with a person who was dying? I ask, because your question about pain medication is totally bizarre. Why would you have to give a dying person a "lethal" injection of anything? That would be the equivalent of clubbing them until their breathing stops.

You see, people who haven't been through death with a loved one, don't know anything. They just don't know what the MANY medical decisions are that get made in the months, weeks, days, hours, and minutes before a person dies. They don't know what the medical protocols are, what the advantages and disadvantages are of the different treatments and decisions not to treat.

They just know that someone said that the patient "starves to death" if a feeding tube is removed, and that it results in long, slow, tortured, painful death.

That is ignorance talking. I can't even believe assumptions are being made that these things are done with no pain medication, no bedside care--what, do you think somebody rips out the tube, everyone walks away and leaves the person to die an agonizing death alone? I mean, think about this a little bit, folks.