[ExI] Medical power of attorney for cryonicsts

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:51 PM, John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Rafal Smigrodzki <
> rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > The instructions do not specify euthanasia, which is an active process
>> and very strictly forbidden, but rather withdrawal of care, which is
>> passive and well-accepted by medical personnel.
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> According to the lowest form of human life, medical ethicists, if you
> withdraw food from a person in a coma that's passive so it's OK, but if you
> withdraw oxygen from a person in a coma that's active and so is murder.  So
> according to these moral paragons it's ethical to slowly starve a person to
> death but unethical to quickly suffocate them.
>

### Is this the case? Hmm, I seem to encounter terminal extubation about
once a week at the hospital, and yet nobody goes to prison for it.

Rafał
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