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have any of you faced a situation like this?? if not.. then its only your opinion.
My mother 3 years ago, my sister 20 years ago, my sister in law 15 years ago all had the same situation happen. Their bodies simply could not handle the disease and the decision was made by the family to let them go.
The parents simply dont want to consider their daughter dead - and they obviously do not understand that you dont come back from being braindead. Yet part of the right to live is also part of the right to die.
Fuck this religious thing of 'shes a catholic so she wouldnt want to do' - people change their minds as they grow up and when your husband and wife there are things that you share that not even your own parents know... so dont give me that crap that "shes my daughter I have known her for a lot longer" - I say, "oh ya?? well mom tell me does she swallow or spit??? because thats something about my wife I know that you will never have a clue?? catholic or not!!"
With that being said, I do have a problem with letting her starve to death. The medical code does not allow for assisted proactive suicides as far as lethal injections - but walking away after pulling a tube is torture. Best way of sorting this out is to give the daughter some peaceful time with each one of the family until (if they all wish to be present) - you can simply stop the heart.
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