A typical US medical care proxy instruction goes like this: If I am in a coma, with no hope of recovery, if I have brain damage or a brain disease that makes me unable to recognize people or speak, I do not want the following types of treatment ------ - Artificial respiration - feeding tubes/intubation, IV's - CPR - Surgical procedures -antibiotics, transfusions. ---------------------------------------------------------- Cancer cells produce toxins that destroy bone marrow. One then stops producing cells like the platelets that are vital to blood stability. Internal bleeding results immediately. When it is cerebral, a deep coma results, and death is swift. Doctors are very familiar with the syndrome. That was exactly what happened recently to an eighty year old with widely disseminated cancer. The person had little lung capacity from the tumour. Yet the for-profit hospital in Karnataka resorted to the insertion of a brain stent. The patient died a day later. They play on fear and guilt to obtain family consent for the 'treatments.'
