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Pulling the plug is like assisted suicide, but with a ton of suffering as the body fails slowly. Stopping a feeding tube is killing through starvation.
Assisted suicide would reduce the pain and suffering in both cases by allowing for pain reduction and shortening the time span.
It's difficult to explain sometimes, but it's not the pain that throws me off concept-wise, it's the personhood aspect of it, in the sense that if you're deemed a proxy and your obliged act in question is to be so absolute as to remove them from the world, then you must ask yourself, how absolute are you?