Is it ethical to disconnect feeding tubes from vegetative patients?

The Bible affirms the sanctity of human life from conception until natural death. The ethical question of disconnecting a feeding tube from a patient in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) is one of the most difficult in bioethics, centering on the distinction between ordinary care and extraordinary means. Most major Christian traditions agree that artificially administered nutrition and hydration (a feeding tube) should be considered ordinary care (basic sustenance) and should generally not be withdrawn. However, if the feeding tube itself causes severe suffering, is failing, or the body is no longer able to assimilate the nutrients (making the feeding tube medically futile), Christian ethics may permit its withdrawal, allowing the patient to die naturally from the underlying condition. The ethical focus is on never intentionally c