[Toy Soldier]

It's a heartbreaking situation - obviously any parent is going to cling to hope if they can tell themselves that their child is still alive. The sad reality of course is that they will be certain that he has no hope of recovery but again, expecting any parent to accept that is huge.

The morals of it are very complicated. I feel like in moral terms, if he's truly braindead then he isn't suffering... if they're arguing that he may be suffering then he isn't braindead. And so, what harm is there continuing like this a little longer. Sadly the parents are more likely to at some point accept the truth as time passes. If it's purely a resources issue that just starts to become really awful.