It would be a rare doctor who would determine that a patient merely needed a pacemaker but would remove and kill a patient based on the wishes of the family. Why, he'd be subjected to a lawsuit and you should institute one right away.
I agree. Her heart was just beating irregularly and had quite a spell. We were unaware at the time, these facts came out later..It's been about 10 yrs now. But my cousin, that one made us really upset. When our mom had lung cancer, we fought the hospital SO hard. They wanted us to remove everything, we said no...Caused QUITE a stink. My cousins watched that and determined they didn't want their family to go through that. They heard all their like that their mother didn't want to be kept alive with machines. They think feeding tubes are machines. My dad had a pace maker and that's all she needed. But she was 85 and her husband was gone and the kids thought she'd be "better off" with him in heaven. Sound familiar?