Can A Person Deliberately Stop His Dialysis Treatment
Patricia LeBlack from Guyana has been on continuous kidney dialysis in London for 40 years and John Prestwich MBE died in 2006 at the age of 67, after 50 years in an iron lung. More invasive life support, such as heart/lung bypass, is only maintained for a few hours or days, but patients with artificial hearts have survived for as long as 512 days. https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/how-long-can-you-be-kept-on-a-life-support-machine