ok , assume this : (post about locked in syndrome) [View All]

[UndertheOcean]

Assume somehow you end up in a coma , and subsequently your famous unluckiness strikes and you are in a full blown locked in state rather than a vegetative state .

Yet , you are at least lucky enough to be able to communicate with your eyes. If you make it abundantly clear that you do not wish to continue life in such a state, nor do you fathom just starving to death , under current federal laws , can the doctors oblige you and assist you in exiting this life with dignity and comfort , or will they just leave you lying there , fully aware unable to move a single muscle in your whole body except your eyes , possibly for decades.


That is BEYOND cruel . I hope current laws ALLOW for assisted death in that case , do they ?