[Wolfstar]

They refer to her as if she was some aging cat or dog that is being "put to sleep."

Actually, what we can do for our beloved pets is vastly more humane than what the above article describes. I am someone who potentially could be persuaded that euthanasia should be made legal. However, if one really believes in euthanasia, removing food and water, and allowing a person to just waste away is the coward's way to do it. It also seems extremely cruel, if not to the patient, then certainly to the family. If you let the patient just waste away, no single individual has to give the lethal injection. As I said, that's the coward's way out.

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What we can do for our beloved pets is vastly more humane than what the above article describes. I am someone who potentially could be persuaded that euthanasia should be made legal. However, if one really believes in euthanasia, removing food and water, and allowing a person to just waste away is the coward's way to do it. It also seems extremely cruel, if not to the patient, then certainly to the family. If you let the patient just waste away, no single individual has to give the lethal injection. As I said, that's the coward's way out.

It is against the law to treat animals this way!!!

A vet would lose his/her licence if they treated a dog with intentional slow starvation.

There would also be far more more media attention if this young woman were a chicken or a cow, with PETA screaming how inhumane this brutal murder was.