In Oregon, a Push to Starve Dementia Patients

People have the right to refuse medical treatment, including in an advance directive. But they do not -- and most definitely, should not -- have the right to force caregivers to starve them to death when sustenance is not medically delivered, e.g. by spoon feeding.

There has already been one Canadian case -- lost -- to force a nursing home to starve an Alzheimer's patient. Now, in Oregon, there's another such dispute. From the Mail Tribune in Medford, OR:

Although food isn't being shoved in...