11-01-2012, 03:07 PM
Legalities aside (I'm sure there are laws on this subject although I can't say I'm familiar with them), who should decide when to pull the plug on someone? Suppose doctors determine that someone will never emerge from a coma, but the family wants to continue to keep the person on life support just in case?
Who decides? A judge? Insurance companies? Some death panel? Should the family always have the choice of keeping them on life support even if the odds are almost nonexistent that they will ever come out of the coma or perhaps come out so badly brain damaged that they can't even function?
Ramsey, it's not rice cakes but I posted that for you, hon.
Who decides? A judge? Insurance companies? Some death panel? Should the family always have the choice of keeping them on life support even if the odds are almost nonexistent that they will ever come out of the coma or perhaps come out so badly brain damaged that they can't even function?
Ramsey, it's not rice cakes but I posted that for you, hon.