[Porsche-O-Phile]

When there is a quick, painless, humane alternative, letting a person (or former shell of a person) linger on indefinitely in a vegetative state or die slowly and painfully over time is pretty tragic, IMHO.

Does nobody else here remember the Terri Schaivo incident from a few years ago? Brought out the absolute worst in our society. I still can't believe there are people around who (if they'd gotten their way) would have had that woman (or what was left of her, more specifically) lingering around with no hope of recovery.

I made damn sure to put my wishes (not to be kept alive if there's virtually no chance of recovery from a coma or "persistent vegetative state") in writing after that. I'd rather take a dirt nap than be a meat sack hooked up to ventilators and what-not for perpetuity.