My mother took eleven months to die in a nursing home following a major stroke. I think she only went then because I had requested palliative care only so when she had the final Infection she wasn't given antibiotics. Her pension was still being paid and, from a mercenary point of view, we would have been better off if she had lived longer but, even though she and I had been estranged for close on to twenty years I could not stand the idea of her continuing as basically a shell with little comprehension of what was going on.
I have a DNR in my medical records and so does Kendall. Whether or not the law is changed I would not now allow anyone close to me to go through that sort of dilemma.I hope that those I love would do the same for me.