![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyHere.
Before people start debating this, let's get the following out of the way:
She doesn't use a ventilator.
She's not "hooked up to a machine" to live.
She isn't on life support, at least not as it's been defined to me.
She uses a feeding tube to eat. Removing this would cause her to starve to death/dehydrate.
Her parents say that she's minimally aware.
Her husband disagrees, and says that she didn't want to live like this.
He is living with another woman.
AFAIK, nothing from the insurance went to cover therapy for her.
It is argued that this therapy could've improved her condition.
Now you can go duke it out in my journal.
Before people start debating this, let's get the following out of the way:
She doesn't use a ventilator.
She's not "hooked up to a machine" to live.
She isn't on life support, at least not as it's been defined to me.
She uses a feeding tube to eat. Removing this would cause her to starve to death/dehydrate.
Her parents say that she's minimally aware.
Her husband disagrees, and says that she didn't want to live like this.
He is living with another woman.
AFAIK, nothing from the insurance went to cover therapy for her.
It is argued that this therapy could've improved her condition.
Now you can go duke it out in my journal.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2005-02-27 09:56 pm (UTC)"She doesn't want to die, hook her up to every machine, she won't leave without kicking and screaming."
However, in honest heart to heart talks he has the final say and my blessing to make the decision he feels would be best, and I trust he will make the right one. But it's pretty much known in my family (and has been written down) that I DO want intervention. It has to be pretty bleak for them to 'pull the plug' as it were.