Wolfgang, you say, "...the question is should we respect the wish of the person not wanting to take in food or not. Even if we do not respect that wish it still would be artificial feeding and not force feeding."

Its a moot point. If a person is forced to be artificially fed with tubes, it can be called forced feeding.

I repeat, "Medical groups including the American Medical Association consider force-feeding of hunger strikers unethical."

If the American Medical Association doesn't make the distinction between forced or artificial feeding, why would you argue the point?

BTW - My post of 08 Nov 05 - 11:31 PM was meant as a reply to the previous post.