At some point it's just time to let go. You have people who believe in God and Christ and the eternal realm, yet they'll fight tooth and nail to keep souls from returning home. I don't understand it. You are missing a critical point here:
Lauren IS NOT dying, but denying her food and water WILL KILL HER.
To compare Lauren to a person dying of a terminal illness is nonsensical. It is no more legitimate than saying that a newborn infant should be denied milk.
And guess what, as the death folks avoid, it is not just letting go, but is dehydration to death, not something we would allow for the most wicked of criminals, nor for the meanest of dogs and cats. They would murder her by a slow and painful torture taking a couple weeks to complete. Ask Lisa MacPherson how she liked it.
Can anyone reasonable outside those locked into emotional tunnel vision imagine Lauren saying this? "Dad I am fed up with smiling and recovering and would much rather have myself tortured for two weeks until I am dead. Please have the killers come and stop a drop of water from my parched lips over that time so I can fully appreciate shriveling up in euphoria."
Maybe we should propose this as an alternative to lethal injection to the really nasty criminals.
However since those obsessed with controlling death and dying are shielded from the obvious by that leftist characteristic of cognitive dissonance, they can ignore the horrors if actually wrought by their fantasies should they come true.