Family members shouldn't be allowed to do whatever they please to a child or a relative who is helpless. I just found out that an aquaintance of mine marched over to the hospital and disconnected his brother-in-law's oxygen supply because "it was time for him to die." Well, the BIL was not a vegetable on life support or something. He suffers from COPD and had a bad bout of bronchitis so he had to go on O2 for a while.
There are a lot of flakey if not downright crazy people out there, and most of them have families. Family members should get the same protection as anyone else would.
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