
Ethical Considerations and End-of-Life Care from a Thomistic Perspective | Prof. Christopher Kaczor
The Thomistic Institute
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What Is Ordinary Nutrition Hydration?
In principle, you should follow that these are ordinary means of life. So what it like, I guess the answer that has, or the question that hasn't really been answered me is like, what does that in principle mean? Because it does seem like it's pretty vague, kind of for a reason almost. Yeah. What they're thinking of is a case where you could deliver hydration and nutrition to someone, but given their deteriorated bodily condition, they no longer can really assimilate it. And so at that point, there would be no obligation to do that because given their bodily deterioration,. Their body is no longer able to receive and assimilate what, what, otherwise healthy person could
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