I’d feel more guilty if I kept my husband alive on a breathing machine when he was all but brain dead.
I got the sense from Peter’s comments that, painful though the decision was, he knew that he was carrying out his wife’s wishes in taking her off life support. The sense of “what if” guilt that he hasn’t been able to shake involves what if had taken her to the hospital the day she had that last fall instead of assuming it was just another minor incident. What if he had not waited until the next day, when it was more clear that she needed attention.
=sheila