Terri Schiavo family joins Jahi McMath family in life support fight

[dflprincess]

15. It is just hateful for the Schiavos to get involved and expoit this family.

The child's parents need people who will gently help them make the decision to turn the machines off.

I had the medical power of attorney for my brother and was the one who had to make the decision to extubate him. In my brother's case, the machine was not keeping him alive but he had end stage lung cancer and we knew he would not keep going very long without the ventillator (45 minutes as it turned out). He & I had discussed what he would want and I knew pulling the tube was the right thing. His kids were in agreement and the hospital had brought in a pallaitve care doctor to help nudge us along.

Still, it was still incredibely hard to tell the doctors to do it. And this was my little brother not my child. I can't imagine what these parents are going through.