[ziggytrix]

Seems to me that keeping someone with no prognosis of recovery alive by machines is a bit grotesque. I know if I were in a vegatative state, and the doctors were telling my family I'd never recover, I wouldn't want them to drain their finances and emotions keeping me alive in a hospital for years and years, just in case.

You would think though, that a licensed physician (neurologist? - whatever) should have to confirm whether or not she was truly braindead before anyone would be allowed to shut thigns off.