You've been there before. Either, he's an immortal soul about to get birthed into a new body (the 3-month mark I'm told) or he's so zoned out, he's feeling no pain. Has had a good life, this is just the grotty postscript. The very idea of a "dignified death" implies: A: the person treating the flesh: knows it can't come back, therefore tries to sign it off with dignity, while at the same time trying everything possible to bring them back - and in medicine, some of these things won't be pretty: B: the soul, if you allow for that, doesn't care about a tube up the nose and an electroshock heart thing; That soul goes on and views the flesh as a vehicle: C: either of these matter - if the person is dying, and nothing remains, you did your best and they cannot stand back afterwards and criticise: I happen to think something remains, and if it does, how does anything you do harm them? Hope you don't mind me posting all this waffle.