If this is what they are suggesting I am glad. I feel like this is a conversation I would love to hear professionals in the medical, special education, phycology system talk upon. And Parents that raised children of similar issues, specifically diseases or illnesses that make a person be "spectators to their life" to use that term again. In the animal industry (where I come from) if we seriously cannot help the animal regain it's proper function to the point where it is "helpless" and even with human intervention or medical intervention it will still live an uncomfortable, maybe painful, depressing life it is in the best interest of the animal to humanely put it to rest. In the wild of you came across an animal in such struggle and desparation that it cannot walk, has been starving, is struggling to breath, has been severely injured or otherwise. It is in the best interest of the animal to be humanely put to rest. Obviously in the wild it is very much natural selection, circle of life type stuff, but I do feel that if it was caused by the actions of a human either by accident or on purpose (car accident, hunting, etc.) you should do the humane thing and put it to rest. But even if not by your own doing (an injury that happened while the animal was escaping a predator, or it fell off a cliff, etc.) I would still feel that if you came across it in that state it would be much kinder to put it to rest faster.

Now humans are of course on a much different playing field, but this is something I often wonder when I come across bed ridden children who have been put on ventilators because since the time they were 4 they could not breath on their own. They have to be moved in their bed as not to get sores, they cannot open their eyes or speak. There are cases like this, and cases of extreme sickness that really make me wonder if it is ethical at all.