Yes you are right. The fact is this whole thing started with a family feud and should have been settled by that family without the media making a circus out of it. This poor woman had 7 years of no progress before Schiavvo started proceeding to remove the feeding tube , another 8 years of fighting in the courts to alow his wife what surely any sane person would want. No person with half a brain would want to survive in the state she was in. Since the USA does not recognise Euthanasia what other choice was there? To keep her alive till her parents died and then she would be rolled off in a corner somewhere until nature took its course. I have been amazed at the people in this forum whop have flamed and called others names for not agreeing with them in this. Obviously they have never had to face the task of allowing a parent to slip away or face the decision to take the machine off a child who has no chance for life, and doctors vying for their internal organs. Who do they think organ donors are? Many are people who have had a decision made by a parent guardian or husband that it is no longer viable to keep them alive on a machine.
The folks who say Feeding tubes are different from ventilators are mistaken. If you dont have a feeding tube growing out of you a feeding tube is an artificial means of life support. You place them in for a while in an effort to save the patient , but sometimes a decision must be made to remove it.
Which relative have you expedited the death process for?