[onyx]

I'm tired. We'll have to disagree on this. I am satisfied she was PVS, but that doesn't make it right. We all need living wills. I have yet to run into one person who would prefer to vegetate for all those years, but I am still looking. Like I said before,, we're Catholics, and my physician husband is devout and takes his Hippocratic oath seriously: "first do no harm."

[Dark Knight]

There's the rub. If you are in a vegetative state, it does not matter, you don't "think". Remaining in that state or dying does not matter.

In a vegetative state there are no preferences. So keeping someone alive waiting for a cure, petrie dish neurons, is okay. It is not a bother to them. If you believe PVS. I don't, it is crappy science.

But go to sleep tonight, and sleep well. I don't think we disagree that much and I am sure your MD husband would not give up on a patient, unless he really thought there was no hope. And it would not be a monetary decision.

All the best.

DK