Withholding Life-Sustaining Nutrition

Abstract: 6 pages in length. To sustain one's existence beyond what is widely considered as a reasonable semblance of life quality has sparked an inordinate amount of controversy between those who support or oppose the notion of nutritional withdrawal as a way in which to aide a terminal or comatose patient's demise. Given the global recognition of the recent Terri Schiavo case where a Florida hospital carried out the task of withholding nutritional sustenance until Schiavo died of dehydration, one might readily surmise how the very essence of life and death has turned into a legal battleground where the critical component of bioethics is at the forefront of close scrutiny. Bibliography lists 12 sources.

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Catagory: Disease, Treatment, & Epidemiology

Subcatagory: Medicine, Medical Issues, & Pharmacy

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