I doubt it, if the mother and all the doctors and other experts advised against it.
Last Saturday I visited by brother-in-law and sister-in-law, who are both in their nineties, in a Residencia.
My brother-in-law cannot make any voluntary movement only reflexes. My sister-in-law, who is blind, I believe understands something but I am not sure as she cannot communicate, feed herself or walk.
So much for Death Panels in Socialized medicine.
When my father had a stroke, his legs froze up and couldn’t move them. He was on Medicare and my mother couldn’t get a doctor to answer her calls as to what she had to do next, like get him into therapy or have a nurse come to the home. Finally she got a hold of a social worker and my father was placed in a private nursing home. My mother had to pay for that herself nearly losing her home to keep him in there, then finally my father was placed in a medicare approved nursing home for men. Try finding one of those and having space available in the state of Michigan. After my father was placed there, and it was depressing, the doctors basically medicated him to keep him sedated. When we noticed his foot looking infected, the nurses said he came in like that. I believe them but we were never aware of his other bed sores until it was too late. It was a stressful time so we did put our trust in the few people who were helping us.
I feel the system basically wrote him off to die. He was in his seventies and once he was on medicare, nobody wanted to deal with him.
So, are you suggesting that they should be “helped to die”, which is just a euphemism for murder, by denying them sustenance? God alone should decide the time of our deaths.
There is a vast difference between using whatever skills and knowledge man has been given to sustain life naturally, and denying life because some human “expert” has decided the quality of life is not worth helping to sustain through such basic means as nourishment.
Why you think the results will be different here
If this is really about healthcare or maybe it is more about some deep seeded need you have to see people with more than you punished. Even to your own detriment.
Because after reading that list, there is no way a rational person can come to the conclusion that government run healthcare is a good thing.