Table 3. Interview guide.

What do you think about the ethics of this decision? And the law? People might use different words or phrases to describe what is going on when the ventilator is withdrawn in a case like this. How would you describe it? Tell me about your response to this case? How would you feel if you were the doctor? Some people have said that “physicians are ethically obligated to do everything reasonable to keep patients alive unless the patient is terminally ill and near death”. What do you think about this? Some people think “that patients have a right to refuse treatments they do not want to receive, even if the doctor disagrees?” what do you think about this? In your view, when is it ethical to stop life-sustaining treatments?(Is there a different meaning for withdrawing ventilation from other neurological diseases?)