Brain dead and on a ventilator...the odds are you are gone. All you can accomplish is to bankrupt your family. Some people plan ahead with Living Wills or Do Not Resuscitate orders. Most do not and the laws require the medical industry to try at all costs. Relatives can "pull the plug" but as the Terry Schiavo case showed, this is not always easy.

Terminally ill with two years to live. Would you rather live three years undergoing procedure after procedure or two years where all treatment was geared to improving the quality of life. It is rarely this clear. Would you forgo the chance of a cure?

Hospice or Hospital?