The medical treatment of an Ontario Protestant Minister, who died on Monday, had become a centre of a right-to-life controversy.

The evangelical Christians are claiming it as an act of euthanasia as according to them the Minster died by dehydration and starvation in the supervision of his doctors.

After living 20 days without food and water, Kulendran Mayandy, 48, finally died on Monday at Brampton Civic Hospital.

His death was hastened as it was believed that he would not be able to survive the brain damage caused by cardiac arrest.

"The whole question was, is it morally acceptable to deny someone the basic sustenance of life, when they are not otherwise dying? He was in a situation where he was recovering significantly”, said Alex Schadenberg, leader of Euthanasia Prevention Coalition.

In order to get Rev. Mayandy fed, a letter-writing campaign was launched by the Ontario right-to-life group, which argued that water is the basic necessity of life but the medical treatment.

Rev. Mayandy was originally from Sri Lanka and he worked as a Minister specializing in Tamil-language outreach at the Humberlea Worship Centre.

In the emergency department, he suffered a heart attack, which caused the cutoff of oxygen to his brain for about 10 or 20 minutes.