Excellent essay by our friend Bill Peace:
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Publications/HCR/Detail.aspx?id=5905
Stephen Kuusisto
Director
The Renee Crown University
Honors Program
University Professor
Syracuse University
The Hastings Center – Comfort Care as Denial of Personhood
Planet of the Blind 
To think that Mr. Peace might not have lived to write his essay — what a loss that would have been for all of us. Reading it, I was thinking that the denial of personhood begins the moment the doctor, gathering his full measure of authority about him, makes a statement, rather than asking a question, and entering into a discussion with the person about the person’s feelings regarding her or his condition and care needs.
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