Reason and Pulling the Plug

When you eliminate reason, you allow emotion to rule. Reason is black and white, but emotion casts a gray shadow over everything. For example, pulling the plug - I was watching an episode of "Lost" and one of the scenes had someone in a coma, pulling the plug type of situation. Someone made a good point "don't confuse guilt with hope". I think humans too often do that and if they just stepped back and realized that the two are separate and distinct it would be easier to face many of life's toughest decisions.