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  • Group warns agains living wills: Standard form assumes you want to be starved or dehydrated to death

    04/01/2005 1:09:12 PM PST · by wagglebee · 25 replies · 1,264+ views
    WorldNetDaily ^ | 4/1/05 | WorldNetDaily
    Amid the national crush to fill out living wills in the wake of the Terri Schiavo saga, a California pro-life group is warning citizens against signing that state's standard living will form, claiming it could result in a painful death by starvation and dehydration. Campaign for Children and Families, a family-values nonprofit organization, is urging people to avoid using California's Advance Health Care Directive form because it makes no distinction between food and water versus heart-and-lung machinery and other artificial life-support systems. Californians who use the state's form with its standard check-off boxes may be denied nutrition and hydration, says...