Removing treatment by democratic consensus as default (living wills)

[Anomalocaris]

I just sent this email to Dignity In Dying. Is this a runner? What say ye?

Dear fellow Dignity in Dying supporter,

My name is ***** and I'm a care worker living in ********, England. I work with many patients who are unable to communicate and are functionally paralysed. These people are kept alive in perpetuity through being tube fed. Of course, none of them had living wills. 

It seems likely to me that 99% if not 100% of people who are aware and familiar with such patients and are also aware of advance care directives/living wills, would choose to have "treatment" (feeding) withdrawn so that they could die with dignity, rather than exist for decades in a paralysed, uncommunicative, pleasureless and hopeless nightmare.

I want to be involved in a campaign which champions this cause, called perhaps "Withdrawing Treatment Via Democracy" or similar.

Any advice, pointers or feedback will be gladly received.

Kind regards and solidarity,

***** *****

“Ye” say nay.

To say otherwise would be to say it is right to enshrine the principle that a vote by those have no particular knowledge of the unusual can deprive anyone who possesses something unusual of his possession.    The unusual in your case is a life that is still treasured by an owner who is paralyzed and unable to communicate.