[Conservative til I die]

. Their decision to remove Jamie's feeding tube should have been relatively simple -- and entirely private. But right-to-lifers and some disability groups fought the Butcher family every step of the way, assailing their legitimate choice to withhold futile treatment as an act of euthanasia.

How can a feeding tube be considered "futile treatment"? First, it is not medical treatment anymore than spoon feeding someone with no arms is. Second, how can it be considered futile if it satisfies the patient's nutritional needs and sustains their life?

[T'wit]

>> How can a feeding tube be considered "futile treatment"?

EuthaNazis argue that patients should be killed if they are not going to recover or at least get better. Any food, water or treatment they receive thus becomes "futile" because it will only sustain them, not cure them.

People who advance this morally obnoxious view have no argument against Auschwitz and Treblinka.