Both ventilator and feeding tube. He has had both since this past weekend. He is semiconscious and has supposedly told his family that he does not want to live "that way." Doctors told the family that he could live from two days to two weeks. I cannot imagine why that family did not turn off the ventilator ONLY. I don't know how much the estate is worth. CO is one of those states that believes in the "right to die."
The ventilator is one thing, the feeding tube, IMHO, is totally another. It sounds like this is not the same kind of feeding tube that Terri had. The one Terri had was a port that was surgically inserted. This might be the kind that is inserted through the throat to the stomach. Perhaps the family intends to hand deliver food and water to him, we can only hope and pray. I will pray that the family not dehydrate and starve him to death. That would be cruel and is not dignified in any way, shape, or form.