A great story and paradigm here. Despite being a sad story.
This is the kind of situation that nobody or I believe that almost nobody wants to choose to go through.
A point well raised for you. Many people will want to respond to your views here, calmly, well relaxed in their homes and in a rational way. But this is invalid.
The real answer is the one that will happen for those who are experiencing this tense and complicated moment. With emotions difficult to control. Perhaps the doctor who is already used to this type of situation throughout life is more calm and rational. But a mother with her child has no equanimity to help. Only if she came from a family with strong roots and an understanding of these difficult situations and about "life after death".
He has hit a good point, it is not pleasant for a person to be in that situation.
On the other hand, as a doctor, I have to see situations that in general would surprise other people a lot, I think that is why we are being prepared from the second year of the degree, but something will always happen that will not be so easy to forget. Like a sudden rise in pressure, which literally causes a brain to cook, they are things that no matter how much you have seen, the complexity of the body does not cease to amaze!
And this is really encouraging when you have hope after death, I have seen relatives of patients who die in total peace, it is something that when it happens, I am more convinced that there is a supreme being.