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Originally Posted by ScaredWebWarrior
That's the nature ofthe human condition - if we're not physically ill, then food & water will sustain life.
That must mean that actively depriving someone of food & water when it is readily available to give is no different than murder - no matter what the legal niceties.
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Well, the flip side of that is that if she wasn't in a "persistant vegetative state" then she'd have to be given food and water, it would be murder otherwise as euthanasia is illegal.
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Still, they seem to have managed to find a way to do so in the case of the unborn and convicted...
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Interesting side note to this: Abortion is legal on the understanding that a foetus isn't a person. However, it seems the laws can change pretty erratically to suit a purpose. Scott Peterson was convicted of a double murder, his wife was pregnant, and he was convicted of killing her unborn baby which theoretically should make all abortionists, serial killers.