"Or that artificial feeding isn't really artificial? "
By that same logic, we could kill anyone who had a pacemaker, after all, it's artificially keeping their heart in rythm and thus extending their lives artificially.
It's artificial.
As is Insulin injections for diabetes.
And let's not forget artificial life saving procedures known as colostomy, without which some people would die.
Show where she had a living will. Give links.There was no living will. The court appointed Michael Shiavo as her surrogate. The arguments against him being the surrogate could be the same against a living will, i.e. adultery.
By that same logic, we could kill anyone who had a pacemaker, after all, it's artificially keeping their heart in rythm and thus extending their lives artificially. It's artificial. As is Insulin injections for diabetes. And let's not forget artificial life saving procedures known as colostomy, without which some people would die.
Yes, you can argue all of those situations but the patient would also have to be mentally and physically incapacitated. AND there would have to be no hope of recovery. AND the person would have had a normal life prior to the above circumstances just as a person who took the time to create a living will would have had a normal life.