I'm sorry you have had to go through such trauma. I imagined you had. I have also personally experienced this and have witnessed 3 comas in friends whose families never gave up. Two recovered; one made continual improvements prior to succumbing to illness.
Regardless of the "just in case" reasoning, pain medications are sometimes a means for more expedient degeneration.
No one, let me emphasize NO ONE should ever have the right to take away the life of a mother's child, NO MATTER the child's age. You can't get more "immediate" than mother/child.
Again, I am sorry for what you went through. My intention is not to cause you to feel defensive. It is rather to defend the god-given right of a mother who wants to care for her needy, once-again-dependent child.
Thanks for your thoughts.
I'll put this into another perspective. When something like this happens and you have heard each and every word the docs have said and they have determined that feeding tubes and or mechanical devices are all that are keeping a comatose loved one alive you have an impossible choice to make. Many times there has been a discussion with that person where you learned exactly what they would want you to do for them if they ever became that patient. At that point for me it became all important for me to carry our her one last wish. This was the final and hardest part of my commitment to her. When the docs said that we had crossed a certain line I was going to carry out her wishes no matter what anyone else said. Never get this mixed up with what I wanted to happen.
It took me years to under stand that her wishes were a gift of love to me.
Life is good for me now and I found love again. It took a while but still happened before I thought it would.
Let this guy alone and let him find his right way through this horrific nightmare.