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This whole thing is not about a persons right to die or assisted suicide!

First of all, a feeding tube is not considered life support, there are a great many people in hospitals that are put on them because feeding them by mouth would endanger their life or they have some physical or muscular situation to make it impractical. It may be a permanent situation or only a temporary one. Feeding by tube is just another way to deliver food and water to the patient.

Second of all, suicide requires the person to make the choice themself. If she sincerly wanted to go that route she should have had a health proxy stating that. As far as I'm concerned, her husbands hearsay should not be considered her proxy in absentia IMO. Be that the case, I thinks it's much better that they error on the side of life especially since she doesn't seem to be suffering from all I have heard or read about it.