[xzins]

Only in the sense that sometimes the taking of a feeding tube is appropriate.

In this case, it is not appropriate because there's reason to discredit the impartiality of the spouse and there's reason to discredit the accuracy of the report that Terri Schiavo would have wanted such a thing.

[winstonchurchill]

WC: Do I understand you to now concede that removal of the feeding tube is not 'murder' under the heated definitions of the 'physical life at all costs' crowd?

XZ: Only in the sense that sometimes the taking of a feeding tube is appropriate.

Either we are making progress or your new-found 'friends' will now turn and eat you alive.

Pray tell, when are those "sometimes [that]the taking [out] of a feeding tube is appropriate"? When the victim -- er, possessor of the tube has previously expressed his wishes not to be so maintained?

Or when the moon is full and the planets are aligned? When?