pulling the plug on a loved one theme
Someone is faced with deciding whether or not to authorize the suspension of life support procedures on a loved one.
Examples
It fell to Clara Murphy to decide in whether to let her mortally wounded husband Alex die or let a team of scientists turn what was left of him into a cyborg "RoboCop" (2014). She went cyborg route.
4 total · 1 major · 3 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| Robot Stories (2003): The Robot Fixer | major | Bernice ultimately authorized having the plug pulled on her comatose son. |
| movie: Deadly Friend (1986) | minor | Paul couldn't stand idly by and let Samantha's life support be stopped, so he and Tom took her lifeless body from the hospital after the plug had been pulled, and revives her by implanting in her brain a special microchip. |
| movie: Man with the Screaming Brain (2005) | minor | A vengeful Jackie had William’s life support plug pulled in hospital. |
| movie: Rollerball (1975) | minor | Jonathan E. refused to sign off on pulling the plug on his teammate Moonpie, who was in a vegetative state after having suffered an injury in a Rollerball match, even though the doctor urged him to do so. |