I read that this man in the story has three dtrs with the estranged wife and have had little contact with him, and that the divorce proceedings have been ongoing for several years....
if the attorney states that the ex wife and dtrs have a finacial interest in Mace dying, won't his parents have the same interest?....they're seeking guardianship or custody over him....
anyway, 18 days may be pretty quick to pull the feeding tube but it really depends on how long he was without oxygen and his condition....
I've insisted to my husband that if anything like that would occur with me, to please let me go peacefully into that good night...personally I have no wish to be kept alive on a tube feeding, a foley, a vent, and oxygen or any variation of the above....
this is a little different because they are divorcing and your example you’re still happily married. i would doubt you want a divorcing spouse to have the power to get rid of you and profit from your death.
if the attorney states that the ex wife and dtrs have a finacial interest in Mace dying, won’t his parents have the same interest?
His will says that the estranged (not actually “ex”) wife and daughers are the beneficiaries of his estate. So, no.
Each person is different. Different outcomes, ages, physical conditions, health problems, and so on.
A very old and good friend was in a coma due to a terrible head-on collision with a truck (tires on his car blew out), and of course docs wanted to pull the plug. His estranged wife came 5000 miles to take care of him and advocate for him. She refused to sign the pull the plug papers. Instead sat by his bedside and prayed and read to him for weeks. They said “he’ll die anyway”, then “He’ll never wake up”, then when he woke up, “He’ll be a vegetable”.
He is now walking, talking, working around the property, thinking, taking care of family interests, etc. And, he and his wife are no longer estranged and he is changed for the better so much that he is actually thankful for the accident.
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anyway, 18 days may be pretty quick to pull the feeding tube but it really depends on how long he was without oxygen and his condition...
First of all, it didn’t sound as though he was not breathing for very long. Second, there is no justification whatsoever for pulling a feeding tube on any living human being, any more than it is justified to stop bringing human beings plates of food.