You're right. That's an MSM error.
The pro-death crowd has had a method of dealing with the dilemma of patients who are merely PVS, not brain dead.
The ghouls can find relatives to "speak on behalf" of the PVS person, to tell a sympathetic judge that the patient does not want to be kept alive "that way."
Voila. The patient is killed and becomes brain (and body) dead.
The ghouls can find relatives to "speak on behalf" of the PVS person, to tell a sympathetic judge that the patient does not want to be kept alive "that way."
If the patient has given someone power of attorney ahead of time, as part of advance directives, the doctors can't just find anyone. In any case, these decisions are usually made by family consensus.
Or maybe the hospital I work for has a higher ethical standards than some.
The problem in the Schiavo case was that there was no written advanced directive and there was no family consensus.