“The research I’ve done on feeding tubes indicates that the cost is only a few hundred dollars a day, this is very minimal by health care standards. Additionally, patients can usually be taken home and their families can do everything (a nurse just needs to check in a few times a month). “
You forgot the part about the caretaker possibly needing to work to keep that home. If I were the one in bad shape, my wife would be the one to take care of me, yet there’s no way she could stop working.
It’s generally not as simple as you make it sound.
Read the other posts I’ve made on this thread. Lauren’s family HAS NOT indicated the finances are a factor in their decision one way or another. Therefore, it is pointless to speculate on it.
Keep in mind that when Terri Schiavo was being murdered there were people coming forward not only offering to pay for her care, but also to pay her estranged husband to leave her alone.
It is a straw man argument to try to make a life and death issue about money when none of the interested parties have even brought it up.