[Almondjoy]

But that isn't the arugement.. although I did state it wrong because of course it's always human.. but a living functioning on it's own human being is totally different.

[eastsider]

I'm not really sure what the argument is, but if it's that being a living human being is based on dependence, then anyone undergoing an operation who's hooked up to a heart-lung machine and the like is already dead.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

but a living functioning on it's own human being is totally different.

A person living in an iron lung, or with some other form of respirator is not "functioning on it's own", as is true of someone in a coma. I presume that they are 'different' too? How about mental defectives -- they do not truly function on their own. Neither do newborn infants. I mention all of these groups because various governments have approved killing all of them, at one time or another. Just wondering who is on your 'hit list'.