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Korean court orders feeding stopped for woman in coma
December 02, 2008
In a ruling that reverses the country's existing legal precedent, a Korean court has ordered the feeding tubes removed from a 75-year-old woman living in a coma that doctors say is irreversible. The court said that the ruling was not a precedent for euthanasia, but that "the patient is assumed to have expressed her wish to die a natural death with the life support removed," because she now has only a "painful and meaningless" existence.
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