Vegetative patient sick - Let die.

Question 1

31 F. Vegetative patient. Revision of PEG tube. Developed severe sepsis. Husband wants wife to die.

Answer 1

Husband only surrogate decision maker?
Establish wife best interest.
How wife was before the accident in terms of values, desires for the future & her relationship.

WHAT DO U THINK WOULD BE BEST FOR Mr R UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES?
WHO IS IN THE FAMILY? IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD THINK THAT I SHOULD SPEAK WITH THEM.
DOES MR R HAVE A LEGALLY APPOINTED GUARDIAN
HV U BEEN CONSIDERING THIS FOR A WHILE? HAVE U SPOKEN TO ANYONE ABOUT THIS.
WHY DO U THINK THAT THIS IS WHAT MR R WOULD WANT?