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You've got to read the proposed "directives" very carefully. My Dad used a CPAP machine to sleep for probably 30 years. Then at age 96 winding up in the hospital, the CPAP machine was discontinued and he was prescribed 2 liters/minute oxygen via an oxygen concentrator for sleep. It worked wonderfully for the last year and a half of his life in an assisted living environment.
So the question came up "Do you feel your life is not worth continuing should it depend on being hooked up to machines" or the sorts of wording, and I pointed out his reliance of the oxygen concentrator for sleep replacing the CPAP machine. Heart and lung machines if required to keep him alive, no, we weren't going to go that route. But the oxygen concentrator, yes, we were willing to "allow him to be hooked up to a machine" for that.
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