Dad couldn't pull plug on son
His son went on to live for 18 more years, paralysed and often needing help from machines. -ST
Sun, Nov 23, 2008
The Straits Times
When his 18-year-old son met with a road accident in the United States in 1983 and went into a coma, American doctors advised Dr Tan (not his real name) to 'let your son go'.
After all, the young man had permanent brain damage and could survive only as a human vegetable, they said.
As a medical doctor, he knew what that meant. But as a father, he could not bring himself to pull the plug.
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