My point exactly Kahuna. Thank God for the lucky woman in your care that you had the ability to make the right decision. In a government run and dictated system, which is what Obama-care is really about, services would be rationed and your friend would maybe have been deemed too costly to provide extended benefits at her "advanced age". You would have merely been informed on what her care was to be and you would have no recourse. Right or wrong, don't you want to have at least the ability to purchase the care you desire and can pay for or have provided for with a health care plan that you purchased according to your needs and ability?
In the case of Terry Shiavo, if you believe that was done to her was correct, which I don't, don't you think it would have been better to give her a lethal injection than to deprive her of sustenance until she slowing starved and dehydrated to death? If you're going to kill someone, which is what was done, don't you think it should be at least as humane a death as we provide murderers on death row. No one can say with any certainty that she was not brain aware or pain free.