Barb, you said in post #62 of this thread that people should be allowed to make living wills. Suppose in the exact case above my wife and I had a living will. Then she wouldn't be murdering me if I were in a PVS?
My mother died this January of ovarian cancer. She had an operation and chemo treatments 4 years before and became very ill, nearly died from the chemo. When they discovered the cancer was back they said it was inoperable and the only treatment they would recommend was chemo. She refused the chemo. We all honored her wishes. During the last five days of her life she was unable to eat anything. She was only able to drink liquids. The last two days of her life she couldn't even keep the liquid down, but we were still able to moisten her mouth with those little green sponges on sticks. To deny a family the right to give even that little bit of comfort to a loved one is one of the cruelest things I ever heard of. My Mother had a living will in which she wanted no extraordinary means of preserving her life. My mother would not have wanted a feeding tube. We therefore did not have one inserted. If one had been inserted I believe to remove it would have been murder.