He says doctors should recognise they are already killing patients when they remove feeding tubes from those whose lives are judged to be no longer worth living. Some will suffer a "slow and distressing death" as a result. It would be better if their lives were ended "more quickly, more humanely and without guilt", Professor Doyal argues. Well, except for Terri Schiavo, who enjoyed her death immensely. Surely it would have been wrong to deny her all that joy.