The family made the tough decision in a timely fashion. She was gone, they let go.
In 1967 my brother was brain dead for a week. A breathing machine kept his heart beating. At that time doctors could not turn off the machine. The physician overseeing the case explained to my parents that if the machine failed George’s heart would stop. Then he left the room. Dad pulled the machine’s plug. It was, he said, the hardest decision he ever made.