{"id":977,"date":"2007-01-20T01:49:17","date_gmt":"2007-01-20T08:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/01\/20\/pulling-the-plug\/"},"modified":"2007-01-20T01:49:17","modified_gmt":"2007-01-20T08:49:17","slug":"pulling-the-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2007\/01\/20\/pulling-the-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulling the Plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking of my father&#8217;s death recently and it made me think of what other&#8217;s views were on pulling the plug on a spouse or parent or a child who was fatally ill with 0% chance of recovery. The person is in pain and has asked to please let them go. Or they have been in a coma and on life support. What would you do and why?If you were going to pull the plug how long would you wait before you decided to go for it? If it was a parent would you have a meeting with the remaining parent and your siblings? 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