[slinky]

Yes I think you should be able to say when you have had enough.

It's hard to watch someone suffer, and like you said Rindy, you wouldn't put a animal through it.

I work with very poorly people, that say they have had their years anyway, but medical intervention like peg feeds etc........are keeping them alive.

I look after a lady with motor neurons disease, and she has made a living will, that states if she is unable to eat and drink, then under no circumstances does she wish for a peg feed to be fitted. She is well capable at the moment to make this decision, and may I add a very level headed lady. I'm sure if I was the same, I would opt out of being kept alive for the rest of my days, led in bed strapped to a peg feed, with no hope of life getting any better.