There is a lot to ponder.
The stunning 2 week shortness of this evaluation and it already being decided in a court.
Is he brain dead? Or in a vegetative state? Can he breathe on his own like Terri Schiavo?
If he’s brain dead are the family being unreasonable?
How can a court order doctors to break a hypocratic oath except under a socialist (fascist) medical system.
He’s neither brain dead nor in a vegetative state. He’s in a coma. He’s been in a coma for two weeks. As such, it’s likely that he’s on a respirator and feeding tube.
If they remove the respirator, he might start breathing on his own. But if he can’t breathe well enough, he could die a horribly painful death, as his cells beg for oxygen throughout his body. It’s like every inch of your body having a charlie horse at the same time. The intensity grows and grows. You can’t cry out, so it looks peaceful. This is a death chosen for the witnesses, not the victim.
If he survives the suffocation, then comes starvation/dehydration. This is a death chosen for witnesses who enjoy torture. I can’t bear to describe it. If you have the stomach for it, there are web sites with descriptions of it. There are even photos, but they’re too graphic for FR. Some of the old-timers here could probably help you find it.
Young, healthy people who have never known a moment of adversity, often think they would prefer death over a difficult challenge. But when it comes down to the wire, everybody fights for that last breath, no matter how difficult, or even painful.