This man's best hope of giving his "formerly cognitively-alive wife" her wishes is by remaining married to her. All the parties have acknowledged he could have gotten a divorce long ago.
This woman is only IN her vegetative state thanks to modern medicine's interventive measures. She'd have been buried long ago if she'd had the good fortune to have been born in a previous century. As my Catholic friend said: "if you believe in an afterlife, send her there NOW!"
The ONLY good thing that's happened due to this case so far is that many of us have been forced to visit the issue of living wills. My honey and are are talking to our attorney tomorrow.
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