Because one of the results of an acute transection of a spinal cord that high up is an inability to sustain blood pressure, the decision was not about removing him from life support. All we had to do was stop raising the intravenous pressors, the medication that was keeping his blood pressure up. We wouldn’t withdraw anything. When his blood pressure started to decline, we wouldn’t raise it as we had before. Harry understood that. So we watched as his BP declined more and more. Two hours later, he died.
