[AaronInCarolina]

'pulling the plug?'

You do understand that the phrase "pulling the plug" does not apply at all in this case, don't you? That phrase suggests that, were it not for modern medical machinery, the patient would die forthright. In this case, the patient is quite healthy, physically. Mind-wise... that is the big question. She has to be forcibly starved to death to accomplish what too many people are calling "letting nature take its course".

[Destro]

a plug is a plug - the issue has to do with brain death. Do you consider a vegetative state a form of brain death that will allow for the medical profession to allow the body to expire/die by withholding what it needs to live (be it food or artificial support of some kind).