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| I feel for ya. It's a hard choice. You (and I don't necessarily mean you personally) want to do the compassionate thing--and many think providing nutrition and hydration artificially is that.
You ask some of those medical providers if they'd do that to their loved ones and see what they say. Your friend sounds lucky; he may get out of it sooner rather than later. Imagine if this went on for, well, years, because it can. There might be the occasional case where the patient improves---but getting those tubes out once they're inserted is pretty difficult. Lots of court time and expense. But that's the least of it as someone cared for slowly deteriorates in front of you.
I had aides ask me how I "could do that to my dad," let him just die when he wasn't eating well. I told them that God could take far better care of him than I could. There are worse things than death.
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