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whose life is it anyway? From the personal to the political, having a relative on life support presents a thorny tangle of issues.(personal narratives)
Byline: Julia Reed
About a year after my grandmother entered what is now widely known as a "persistent vegetative state," my parents attended a dinner party in Washington. The host, a newspaper columnist who was also a close friend, asked my mother how her mother was doing, so she told him. She sleeps; she wakes up; she responds to different voices-but there is absolutely no consistent level of awareness. The other guests, who included members of congress and the odd cabinet secretary, murmured polite words of sympathy-and then the overserved wife of a powerful senator stopped everyone cold. "Mama was like that," she said. "But after a while we just put a pillow ...
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