Richie,

If you had a loved one in a perstistive vegetative coma (God forbid that you ever would have), would you not want counseling by a social worker, minister, and doctor as to the best thing for the patient? Is it better to have them in the vegetative coma for 20 years in pain with no hope of recovery or better to have them sent peacefully off to Heaven?

Patients with incurable disease or conditions and their families will usually speak to a doctor and minister about end of life decisions and whether or not to take actions to prolong life.

This is nothing new. It is common sense. It is not death panels. Sometimes, it is the hardest act of love a person will ever make.