So, killing your mother is a better choice? Are you for real?
“So, killing your mother is a better choice? Are you for real?”
So spending $200,000 to artificially maintain a breathing corpse is “real”?
Typically a person will die within 6 months from the time the heroic efforts are initiated. The patient would have died a normal death but the family decide to expend a huge amount of money to no avail, usually against the wishes of the person who knows they are dying. Nobody is “killed”.
In Europe, if the dying patient so wishes, their death can be assisted in order to avoid further agony and degradation. In America, if an older person wants to avoid heroics, basically they have to stay home and flop around on the floor like a dying carp or they blow their brains out which really puts a guilt trip on the family.
I personally tried very hard to follow my parents living will but was fought every step of the way by medical professionals who said one thing while making every effort to maximize their profits. Life is not simple, neither is death.