[2banana]

Texas law allows hospitals to discontinue life-sustaining care, even if a patient's family members disagree. A doctor's recommendation must be approved by a hospital's ethics committee, and the family must be given 10 days from written notice of the decision to try and locate another facility for the patient.

A very hard matter to decide. I have seen both sides. The very worst - babies with no chance of living that are kept alive (at the hospital expense) so that the parent can continue to collect the baby's social security check (yes, they get one).

[Skooz]

....so that the parent can continue to collect the baby's social security check (yes, they get one).

The maximum monthly check the child would be eligible for would be $30.00, if the child is in a Medicaid facility. If not, the child would get nothing. And it would not be a Social Security check, it would be from SSI.