Would you pull the plug?

Say that after a tragic accident that is partly your fault, the person who is closest to you ends up in a coma. The doctors tell you that there is a 50/50 chance that the person could wake up but it is not certain when that could happen. It could take days, it could take years, or the person could never wake up at all. Everyday costs money to keep the person alive and you are asked the question: Do you want to pull the plug and end the person's life or do you want to keep the person on life-support for might or might not be the rest of this person's life?

Somethings i rather not re-live. Pulling the plug takes into consideration how much determination, desperation, anxiety, fear, love. Emotions are what drive most to create decision. If i had to, and if i did, i couldn't live as usual. A bit of my being would be lost. Situation dictates. But i rather not re-live it.

Well i like to think positive so no i wouldn't pull the plug... Unless.
If you are the one who has to pay to keep them on life support, AND if in the end it would brake you in the bank. I'm sure whoever it is wouldn't want you to become poor or homeless with just a "chance" of coming out of it. Though even if that was the case i would say to give it a year or so if your funds allow so you at least cared enough to give them a chance.

a 50/50 chance?! hell no im not pulling the plug!!, thats like hearing your fam scream SAVE ME!!! run into the burning building getting halfway there and saying "fuck it they done for"then turning around and going home. !m doing all i can until there is no possible chance

Not really ... there is someone who always demand some payback for what we done ... they will not care whatever happen to you as long as you are the one who cause it .

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I prefer to pull the plug after some time which i cannot afford more to keep him/her living .. the day of treatment sure is suffering with a poor chance of living ..
Based on that, i am the one who always do something which have high probability ..

Even it goes on matter like this .. it will be really hard for me to do so but i will still pull the plug .. for the sake of our

I would just pull it after a few months.
As much as I want the person alive and take care of the person,the reality is that I would not have the money to keep this person alive,considering I have to support others who are living that needs more.

That depends what the person in the coma would want. Like my father he left me in legal charge of health matters. Over my brother and sister(42 and 43) even though I'm 20. because I have a little more med knowledge then them and I know what he wants in matters like this "pulling the plug" thing. He does not want life support at all, so if in his case. Yes, I would pull the pug myself if required. If someone how I didn't know what they would want. Depending on the type of life after the coma they would have and judging on the way they lived and the effect on others (kids,ect). Give them a month and make the choice. It would more then likely end up pull the plug because the damage to family would start being more then the death of that person would be.

Wait a year
50/50 eh? wait till the doctors decision
If I was nash, I'd pull that and hit that

50/50 is a pretty good chance, so I don't think I would.

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More likely I'll Pull the Plug... Even If I have to deal with all the negative stuff that comes with it... I don't have much money to start with and more likely that the therapies will burn even more money should it take that person years to recover...

I would just wait it out till the person wakes up.

If it were a worse prognosis, I'd probably give it a month and then consider the situation and probable quality of life were they to come out of it. At 50/50, I should think I'd pay as long as I was able, although if it got into years I might have to reconsider, seeing as that would fuck their life up completely even minus any other repercussions.

Does make me wonder how long the NHS would keep someone on life support, though, seeing as it isn't your money.

Fifty-fifty is a bit high for me to consider pulling the plug. However, as inhuman as it may sound regardless of whether their family or myself and paying the hospital bill I would not spend years paying a hefty bill with little no sign of recovery.

It's hard to say goodbye. So don't.

50/50 is pretty high....i would wait it out 1 year or until i can no longer afford to keep this person alive. ( i would ask for money start a fundraiser, ask local charities.etc. etc.)

But if it seems like he wont wake up....I'm sorry but it has to be done.

In case my first post wasn't clear enough, pull the plug. i'd rather take the dirt nap than put my family in debt for a short extension of a probably crappy future. same for organ transplants. they may give me a longer life, but it would be poor quality, and cost too much, though i am an organ donor. i'd prefer they go to some one young whose life would be cut short, but i won't have any say, as i'll be dead by then.