How exactly did Barbara Warren die?

Question

I know it's because her family told the doctor to take her ventilator out, but did her family do that on purpose because Barbara wanted to die, or just to see if she could breath without it?

I never knew of Barbara Warren, but this story of her death has made me very emotional. RIP Barbara.

Answer 1

Warren, of San Diego, died Tuesday at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital when her family told doctors to take her off a ventilator, her twin sister Angelika Drake told the San Diego Union-Tribune.

Warren crashed her bike on a downhill road about halfway through the 34-mile cycling section of the race on Saturday, race director Joe Coito said.

Warren was paralyzed from the neck down and was breathing with the aid of the ventilator.

Drake said her sister told the family by blinking and nodding that she wanted to die.

"I talked to her and she nodded over and over and over again. She wanted to leave," Drake said. "No athlete would like to have a life with only their eyes talking."

Warren's two daughters and her husband Tom were also with her at the hospital when she died.

Answer 2

I read in a news article that she was communicating with her family by blinking and nodding her head. Her family said she wanted to die. The family did not do this on purpose.

Answer 3

she was blinking answers that she wanted to die........she was an athelete so theres no way shed have wanted to live  from the waist down...so they turned off her ventilator..........very sad indeed.xx liz