Food and water are not artificial life support. If so, how much artificial life support have you had today?
"Mmmmm...That's some good artificial life support I had for lunch."
No, they're not. I never said they were.
Food and water, however, administered by a healthcare professional to a PVS patient via a surgically implanted feeding tube, in the State of Florida, is.
Current Florida law makes no distinction between respirators and other life support and feeding tubes. All can be withdrawn by their guardians or surrogates, or the patients themselves, if they have expressed their wishes orally or in writing.
As a resident of Florida, you can change ... wait a minute. You're not a resident of Florida. What business is it of yours what the citizens of Florida have decided? Why are you nosing around in Florida business? I thought this was a republic where the states decide, not some dictatorship ... or theocracy.
They are spiritual life support as well as physical. Jesus is associated with the Water of Life, and in the Lord's prayer, we ask for our daily bread. The Eucharist is consecrated wine and bread.
The burgeoning Death Cult laws are legalizing the homicide of society's most helpless members, not least by denying them water and sustenance. Your own investigations of the futile care laws reach the same conclusion.
You will not be surprised that the first time Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was pulled, in 2003, Michael ("loving husband") refused even to let her take holy communion. That raised such a stink that he let her have a drop of wine and a speck of bread when he put her to death in 2005. But Judge Greer, without any legal authority whatsoever, forebade anyone from giving her water or food by mouth. He wouldn't even let her have ice chips in her mouth, though that is standard medical practice to ease the patient's agony. Armed men guarded her closely to make sure that nobody gave Terri a drop of water.
Judicial execution by torture.