What is wrong with you.
I'm NOT DISAGREEING with you.
The definition of euthanasia includes a person who is NOT terminally ill. The definition of euthanasia includes "injured individuals."
Terri Schiavo is not on life support. Therefore, removing the feeding tube INITIATES the dying process, just as it would initiate the dying process for ANY PERSON who is not capable of feeding himself. This is euthanasia AND it is murder.
Combination of bad timing in reading the posts and a genuine disagreement.
I don't consider euthanasia to be murder if the person (unlike Terri Schiavo) is clearly dying, each day worse than the day before and all possible cures have been tried.
In such a case palliative care to the extent that might shorten a pain wracked week to 3 not pain-wracked days would meet the definition of euthanasia and not be murder in my opinion.
It can be a tough call if the patient cannot communicate and has not left written instructions.