Whose right to choose?

If this was me, then the judges would have made the right decision. I know this is a very difficult and emotive issue, dependent upon your religious and person beliefs.

However, if I were to ever enter into a persistent vegetative state, I would hate to think that my loved ones could not let me go, grieve and move on. For me, PVS is a limbo between life and death. Maybe medicine will one day develop a technique for reversing PSV, long-term comas, etc but you could say that about anything.

But this raises various other questions:

I know that living wills in the UK are not yet covered by statute but they have featured in several cases so have presumably entered into common law. If I had one, would it be honoured?

In this case, it is the husband who wants to allow her to die and yet her parents resist. I obviously do not know the ins and outs of their family circumstances nor the lady's personal beliefs. In the UK, in the absence of any advanced directive, medical note or living will, who has the right to choose my treatment?
As I am married, I would like to think that my husband's wishes would be adhered to. I would certainly trust him to take the most appropriate decisions. But I wonder whether this is actually the case. When you can no longer communicate your wishes, surely your spouse should be able to speak for you? (Which also comes back to that very difficult circumstance, when the family of a gay person (who may even have been ostracized by the family) has more legal rights of access or decision-making than that person's life-long partner.)

If there are any medical doctors reading this, I would be very interested to know where we stand in the UK.

On a lighter note, wishing you a joyful Spring Solstice/Happy Easter/long weekend. :o)

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