re: #80 kerFuFFler

Somehow it seems even crueler to keep a comatose person alive for 8 years if you suspect that there is a glimmer of consciousness remaining. Imagine not being able to communicate any of your wishes for that long and remaining essentially blind and paralyzed. If you experienced an itch you could not scratch it and if any music was too loud you could not ask that it be turned down. Pure torture. As technology advances we really need to ask ourselves if “choosing life” is really always the moral choice.

But if a person is ‘locked in’ (conscious, but can’t do anything), how are you going to end their life without another form of cruelty?

This is why one should make one’s wishes known in advance, and also why family should make decisions, not bureaucrats.