This is a very good thread. Thanks for posting it Coleus, and thanks for the ping 8mm.
Some don't know how strong their will to live will be if they are facing the POSSIBILITY of death. IMO, this is a very powerful snippet from the article from The New American:
".... she wanted no heroics. But as she lay in an intensive care unit, listening to the doctors talk about her own impending death and their plans NOT (emphasis mines) to treat her, her ideas of medical aid toward incapacitated persons drastically changed. Her own will to live surged, and she began to fight for her life."