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18 Smith ⦁ ANH and PVS Patients 69 Ibid ; Pope Pius XII, “The Prolonging of Life,” (1957) in The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , volume 9, number 2 (Summer 2009), pp. 327-332. 70 Mackler, Introduction , p. 86. 71 Ibid. p. 89. 72 Clark, “Tube Feedings,” pp. 43-64. See also Daniel P. Sulmasy, “Preserving Life?” in Commonweal, volume 134, number 21 (December 7, 2007), pp. 16-18; and Consortium of Jesuit Bioethics Programs, “Undue Burden?” in Commonweal, volume 136, number 3 (February 13, 2009), pp. 13-15. 73 Harvey, “Burdens-Benefits,” p. 104. 74 Clark, “Tube Feedings,” p. 56. 75 Ibid. 76 Clark, “Tube Feedings,” p. 57. 77 Ibid. 78 Ibid. 79 Kevin W. Wildes, “Ordinary and Extraordinary Means and the Quality of Life,” in Theological Studies , volume 57, number 3S (September 1996), pp. 501-512. Wildes uses the phrase ‘quality of life,” but perhaps a better term would be ‘quality of function.’ See also Jos V.M. Welie, “When Medical Treatment is no Longer in Order, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly , volume 5, number 3 (Autumn 2005), pp. 517-536. 80 Wildes, “Ordinary,” p. 500. 81 Ibid . 82 Ibid. p. 501. 83 Ibid. 84 Ibid . p. 502. 85 Ibid . 86 NEJM Task Force Articles on PVS. 87 Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler, The Sexual Person: Toward a Renewed Catholic Anthropology , Georgetown University Press, Washington, D.C. (2008). 88 M. Therese Lysaught, “Love Your Enemies: Toward a Christoform Bioethic,” in Gathered , p. 309.