Have you all seen "Princess Bride"? Sorry to inject a comedy into a very serious subject, but there's this whole plot development when Wesley (hero) is thought to be dead, but then the Billy Crystal character reveals that Wesley is only
mostly dead, and Wesley goes on to recover.
Maybe not funny unless you know the movie. But perhaps unwittingly the movie is making "our" point.
Yes, I remember that movie scene very well. If this woman was brain dead I would not have a problem with "pulling the plug." But this seems to me to be very different and I hate the death by starvation/water thing - so euphmistically packaged as "DE-hydration." :(