I don’t know about it being questionable, although of course that’s a possibility. But with so many people and the MSM always touting that that’s what most people would want (not being on life support, etc. etc.), I think a significant number of people get conned into thinking that they are doing the right thing when they make a decision like this. I’ve told my family that they are not to remove reasonable life support on me. If they do and I die, I will come back to haunt them. I just don’t trust the medical establishment.
If you knew you were the cause of the accident that put your spouse in that state, would you wait a mere week and a half before asking them to let him die of thirst? I doubt it.
My dad recently passed away, and for the last 6 months of his life, he was in and out of the hospital. As they moved him from room to room, someone would always come in with a clipboard asking him if he wanted to be removed from life support and when, and my dad’s mind was sharp until the day he died, and he’d look at them, and say, “No, I’d prefer they stay on— thank you.”
And then they would leave and we’d all get a laugh out of it. Although it wasn’t funny, it was just tasteless, and morbid. We probably had to sign that thing 50 times in 6 months.
This woman was cheating on her husband and having a heated argument with him about her infidelity when she opened the door of the moving vehicle they were in and distracted him, causing the crash that injured him.
Yet the law's default position says she had the right to make his medical decisions for him.
Then there is another question of conflict of interest: how does someone who stands to gain insurance and survivor benefits from someone's death get to choose whether they live or die?
My medical directive requires any life-ending decision to be made in consultation with a Roman Catholic moral theologian who is a member of Opus Dei.
My wife and I agree that these decisions should be made by someone who is knowledgeable, has emotional distance and stands to gain or lose nothing from my demise.