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"Are the bishops saying that removal of a feeding tube of a person who can breathe on his own is NOT euthanasia?"

ISTM that the position is a very "phariseesque" word game distilling down to "mere removal of sustenance is not tantamount to 'killing', and the fact that the person dies is not due to the action of those who decide not to feed the person; she merely dies on her own, nature taking its course"

Allow me to assert that if this is the case, then every mother who has been prosecuted for the death of her infant due to lack of food (and I believe there are plenty of such cases) will need to be reviewed, and reversed.

It is painfully obvious that the act of withholding sustenance from a person who is unable to provide it on his own is the killing of that person.

It is a despicable level of hypocrisy to pretend otherwise.

And it is an indictment of our culture that this is tolerated, let alone encouraged.

From what you wrote, would it be fair to ask that if the convicted murderer is placed in a locked room and food and water are withdrawn, then the death would be natural and these 'Bishops' could look the other way? ... I'm truly saddened by what the catholic Church has become ... and I'm reminded of that fact every time I choke on the Nicean Creed or the Apostle's Creed.

This again reminds me of the popular Huey Pierce Long, Jr., D-LA. He said that if Americans ever adopted "fascism," we would call it "anti-fascism." So now we are calling "euthanasia" just "death by natural causes." Some liberals call it "mercy killing." It's funny how the "die with dignity" crowd has death in mind for someone other than themselves. Ditto the abortion people. Every supporter of abortion has already been born!!!!!