[Esus]

There was a case somewhat similar to this that I heard about a while ago. The patient wasn't on life support, but they couldn't move and had to be fed food and water. The patient wanted to die (euthanasia, etc). Essentially, it came down to a coutroom battle - should the doctors kill the person or not? Of course they couldn't. Euth' is illegal and doing it would make loads of people want to die. So what they did was to categorise food and water as 'medical treatment'. A doctor is within the law to withdraw medical treatment from a patient, and so that's what the doctors did. The patient starved to death.

Anyway, that's not really related.