[mountaineer]

Every time someone is forcibly starved to death because it's a cost-effective way to end a life deemed too expensive or high-maintenence by the family or the medical establishment, yes, it's absolutely murder. Pure barbarism.

Those aren't the reasons given for removing Terri Schiavo's feeding tube. If they were, I'd wholeheartedly agree.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

Oh, that's right. The reason given for doing this to Terri was because three Schiavos suddenly remembered it was her wish, seven years after the fact. And after the husband argued to a court that he needed hundred of thousands of dollars to keep her alive.