H/T to Dom Bettinelli Jr for this one:
British man loses right-to-food court case
A British man has lost his legal fight to say that he has a right to not be starved by doctors when he is rendered unable to speak for himself. Leslie Burke, who has Friedreich’s ataxia-- a disease that attacks the body but does not impair mental ability--had appealed all the way to the European Court of Human Rights to have someone simply say that food and water are basic human rights. The courts have ruled that the British doctors--part of the socialized health care system in the country--not the patient, have the right to decide a patient’s treatment--or lack thereof apparently.
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