Having watched my brother's unconscious body waste away because it would have been "unethical" for a doctor to hasten his demise, I can tell you it took all my strength not to just put a pillow over his face. Fortunately for us, he died rather quickly after the food and water were withdrawn, but shit, why? The end result was the same. Withdrawing food and water is a very slow fucking way of dying, why not just slam a gram of the same shit they were (uselessly) giving is for his "comfort." His brain was fucking DEAD. Ot at least the pre-frontal cortex, and all the higher functions. He was not aware of any "pain." His body was going through rudimentary autonomic death throws, so they juiced him up with Demerol and Verced so WE wouldn't have to see him twitch and writhe. Why not double the fucking dose and put and end to the misery? His mother couldn't hack it and locked herself in the garage with a bottle of Xanax, a big glass of wine and a running automobile. She figured out how to do it without a doctor, but my brother couldn't act on his own behalf. It would have been nice if a doctor had taken some initiative in ending my brother's life, rather than simply stopping feeding him.