Patient loses right-to-food fight
Tuesday, 8 August 2006

A man with an incurable brain condition has lost his final legal appeal to insist that doctors give him food and drink in the final stages of his life.

Leslie Burke, from Lancaster, feels he will be denied sustenance when his illness makes him unable to speak.

The European Court of Human Rights said it did not believe there was a real threat that his food would be stopped.

The European judges refused to reverse a UK ruling that allows doctors to decide a patient's treatment. the rest


Doctors Dehydrated My Husband To Death: U.K. Widow
By John Jalsevac
NORFOLK, U.K.,
August 8, 2006

(LifeSiteNews.com) – At the same time that the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is being investigated for allegedly starving and dehydrating a woman to death in 2003, the wife of a former patient treated on the same ward is calling for another investigation into the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her husband.

Kate Speed claims that although her husband’s death certificate states that he died from pneumonia, that in fact he died because of a hospital-ordered dehydration, an ultimately fatal measure that neither she nor her husband approved. the rest