ily members. She attended and at her first meeting looked around the room. Most of the people were much older than her. They told Claire she had to move on: she was young, she had a baby, and things were never going to change. Claire says that after that meeting, she could not go into Don's room. She was feeling angry, scared, and guilty. Her husband had no idea what was going on around him; sometimes she would find him lying in his own excrement. "It was a horrible, horrible scene," she says.
             Claire befriended a woman whose son also was in an irreversible coma. She sympathized with Claire, admitting, "If I had any guts at all, I'd bring in a gun and take care of my child."
             Claire had never felt comfortable talking about end-of-life issues, but Don had frequently
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