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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Listmates: Happy Friday. The Health Care Directive statute (RCW 70.122) statutory form says, clearly, that if the signor is diagnosed to be in a terminal condition or a permanent unconscious condition, then “life-sustaining treatment” shall be withheld or withdrawn. But, later the form gives the signor the right to choose between having “artificially provided” food and water or not having artificially provided food and water. WHAT?!?!? If a person signs the form but checks the box that says the signor wants the food and water tubes, then what? Aren’t these inherently inconsistent provisions. Aren’t the food and water tubes “life-sustaining treatment?” It now seems to me the HCD shouldn’t even be used if the person wants to be left hooked up “because they are finding new cures all the time” or for whatever reason. I always thought that the HCD was used to express the signor’s desires WHETHER to have the doctors pull the plug and the signor could elect to be left hooked up by checking the box saying the signor wants the artificially provided food and water. Now, I question this assumption. Remember, in the Terri Schiavo case in Florida the “life-sustaining treatment” <i>was</i> the food and water tubes. Am I missing something? Anyone willing to talk me back from the ledge?? None of my secondary sources discuss the issue and I am re-working my forms.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="Paul_Neumiller"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><img width=375 height=225 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D10805.E0A12190"></span></a><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>