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I think this is a different situation than your sister in law. Cancer is a terminal, progressive disease. This is from a one time injury.Therapy has actually been withheld from this woman to prevent her from improving.

I saw this done in a hospital once to an elderly woman. The nurses were all upset. She had a stroke, but with a feeding tube was starting to improve. She smiled and tried to talk to you.

Her doctor told us he actually prescribed too thick a mixture to go down the tube, so it would have to have it pulled. He did this on the instructions of the family. The nurses hated him behind his back, but it was all legally done.

After a few days she grew weaker and died. The head nurse cried when she died, from frustration. She said to me, "She could have gotten better, but they didn't want her to."

She left quite a bit of money to her family.

Your arguments are rational. First of all, not all cancers are terminal. Secondly, lots of people die from one time injuries.

But, saying that, I am not saying what this man is doing is right. Please remember when people post, they may not know all the little details. I did not. I just saw lots of people slamming a husband.

Your story is very sad but unfortunately not at all uncommon. I saw this kind of thing going on all the time in the geriatic hospital I volunteered at.

I would rather die childless than to experience the heartbreak I see the elderly go through all the time. Can you imagine your last few days being spent knowing that your beloved grandchildren were trying to kill you for your money? Today's society wants to put the disabled and the elderly up in a box while the healthy and able themselves have fun.