The Nomad and the Olive Branch

You know the phrase "Cut off the head of the snake and the body dies"? I'm sure that applies to every living creature out there... except for maybe starfish because those guys don't even have heads. Anyways, I'm writing on this topic because I've come across countless cases where brain-dead patients are forced to suffer untreatable and progressive end-organ damage in a slow, agonizing death because family members and MPOA's cling to the delusional hope that, somehow, a brain that has been literally killed by anoxic injury will receive the same blessing Jesus gave to Saint Lazarus of Bethany and somehow flicker to life.  Futility  is defined by many scholars as a less than 1% chance of management success. One such scholar, Griffin Trotter, defined it as occurring in the following setting: 1. There is a goal 2. There is an action and activity aimed at achieving this goal 3. There is virtual certainty that the action will fail in achieving this goal ...