Pulling the plug?
It was coming to a point where Gertuda really had no idea how to handle the situation anymore. She was scared that she was just prolonging the inevitable. Her husband was going to pass away and maybe it was just time that she needed to accept it and let him go.
Her family thought that after months of him being in a coma, maybe the best thing she could do was to pull the plug on him. Keeping him in his grey area of dead and alive was not the best position for her mental health. She was so stressed that she could hardly function.