ABSTRACT
Do you believe in the right to die? Under what circumstances would you want to be kept alive? Would you want your parents to intervene if they did not agree with your spouse’s medical decisions? Do you feel a society should decide to keep someone alive whose brain is not functioning? If a person is in a persistent vegetative state, should that person be kept on life support indefinitely, no matter what the cost? Do you feel that the president, the Supreme Court, and Congress should be able to intervene and even should go against an individual’s wishes about when to sustain life in catastrophic circumstances? Who pays for this care? Should a brain-dead person on life support with no hope of consciousness be given more consideration then terminally ill people who do not receive care? If a parent is unprepared to let go of a brain-dead child, should there be a provision given by the courts to keep that child alive for the sake of the grieving parent?
