Right to Die? Right to Kill? What's Right?

Yahoo! News - Schiavo Kin Wants Feeding Tube Reinserted

"Terri Schiavo suffered severe brain damage in 1990 when her heart stopped briefly because of a chemical imbalance. She can breathe on her own, but she relies on the feeding tube to keep her alive."

He husband wants--and got--the feeding tube removed. Her family (and the Republican-controlled Congress) want it put back. Both sides claim the moral high ground. "She wouldn't have wanted to live this way," says her husband. "We want her to live" say her parents.

Is this euthanasia? Is it just withholding "treatment?" Is it killing? When you stop to consider that the removal of the feeding tube has caused this woman to be without food and water for the last three days, it seems to me that we're talking about killing a human being through starvation. We wouldn't withhold food and water from a dying dog, so why is it OK whe it comes to a human being. The chilling part of this whole thing is that there may be those who argue that Terri Schiavo may not be human. The say that a "persistent vegetative state" constitutes the righton the part of family and others to decide to hold food back.