excuse me I don’t mean to sound heartless but the ultimate decision should rest with the spouse, not her family.
St. Petersburg, FL, notwithstanding, a spouse doesn't have the right to kill a spouse.
Do you have any children?
I wonder how you would feel if you were that way related to Terri’s husband and it happened to you?
Sure, tell that to my mother, who tried to get my stepfather food, antibiotics and hydration. Hospice decided to withhold it all and she had absolutely no say. She was trying to get him out of there but no place would take him since he was “in” hospice.
he had cancer, but was doing pretty well. He was up walking and eating, the morning he was admitted to hospice. He felt bad in the afternoon went to the hospital and they transferred him to hospice. Hospice told my mother it would be just like home care but that they would be helping her. They showed her a kitchen and said she could make him anything he wanted. They signed him in she went home to get some clothes for him and when she came back they had him in a bed with rails up, IV hooked up and a nothing by mouth sign over his bed. Hospice lied to my mother and she will never forgive or forget what they did to her husband.
“excuse me I don’t mean to sound heartless but the ultimate decision should rest with the spouse”
Excuse me, but the ultimate decision should rest with the patient — it’s called a Living Will, something a good many Freepers would do well to read about, rather than turning every nationally known individual dying process, into a Schiavo soapbox.