Dilemma? In the days when Pace makers be external [internal ones, 2 speed sex , no sex ] and defribrillators could unload 500 Joules of energy on to the T Wave. I witnessed a situation in a CCU of 14 Beds one Sunday afternoon. I was there on emergency to return a Monitor with all the bells and whistles back to a working condition. In the bed opposite to my working position, a Patient flat lined, setting off the alarms and causing a crash cart to be moved, quickly to the location accompanied by Doctor and Nurses. the Doctor quickly had the patient s heart beating and the patient was fully comos mentos in a heart beart, when he let forth a string of juicy cuss words unfit for my tender ears along with the statement l****************let me die you**********************, Of course, they carried on with the treatment. The debate be was he lucid? Then the cost of the bed be only 20 times my weekly wage per day. I did not stay around long enough to see the long term result. Of course now I have a legal paper in my wallet stating to effect that I want no unusual treatment to keep me functioning, daisies need food too, as I be in that stage of life that the Bard says 'sans eyes , sans teeth , sans taste, sans everything.'