I think Chris Reeves would refute that statement, he fought every day to live in a way which I'm pretty sure he would have said he didn't want before his accident?
What say you?
A couple of things:
#1. Chris Reeves did not want to be kept alive by machines and only agreed to do so after his wife asked him.
#2. Chris Reeves had the money to have the kind of full time care required that did not burden and bankrupt his wife and family.
#3. I probably should have clarified that the people whose bedside I've stood at didn't know I was there and never would know I was there. They were severely brain damaged from strokes, etc. I don't think there are many of us who would wish to be kept alive merely for the sake of being kept alive when we don't have cognitive abilities.