Hey, everyone's got an opinion, but THINK, and get yer very own!
The argument made by the "other side" made out its point something like this, this poor woman is no longer a person, she is brain dead, and she is kept alive "on a machine." We need to allow nature to take its course. Just unplug her from the machine, and let nature have at her, that's all, nothing unusual about this, it is how we provide her with "dignity."
The fact is, deprived of food, nature will have its way with absolutely anyone. It's called "starving to death." Not even the infamous Doctor Death aided his patients with suicide via starvation, why? Because it takes a while.
So these "death with dignity" givers, why didn't they suggest the electric chair? Or lethal injection? Or firing squad? Or guillotine?
Oh, that would be killing. We don't want to kill her, we just want nature to take its course with her. Not yet, my pretty, not yet.
It's not killing, is it, to do nothing. I mean, to kill someone, you have to take action, right? So by "unplugging her from the machine" we are not killing her, it has nothing to do with us. It is just nature.
“Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us.”
- Arthur Schopenhauer