Any parent worthy of the title will do exactly as you did— whatever is humanly possible to save a son or daughter with a great deal of prayer thrown in to summon the powers of God. Sometimes, miracles happen. Sometimes God calls them home anyway for reasons we mere humans cannot understand. But the important thing is that you and your son (and God) made the decision, not some faceless government bureaucrat. My sincere condolences and congratulations for a well-fought fight. How old was your son?
Thank you for the kind words. He was 11 when first diagnosed; 16 when he died.
Aside from the moral issue, tehre is an important pragmatic issue that the Obama people don’t get — the more we invest in saving the cancer-striken like this man’s son, the closer we get to a cure in the future — whereas if we just pull the plug, our research and knowledge remains static. And that’s just stupid.