My Father is Ill and Wants Me To Pull The Plug, Please Help Me!

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My father is 83 years old and has been hospitalized for almost 2 months now. He has been diagnosed with a type of terminal cancer and needs to be connected to a life support machine that feeds him nutrients in order to keep him alive. There is no hope of a cure but he could possibly stay alive for a significant period of under this machine. In our most recent conversation he asked me to unplug the machine that keeps him alive, he said I am the only person he would ask to do this and that he would understand if I didn't do it but he made it clear that he had nothing left to live for and that it was his wish to pass sooner than to live in his death bed any longer. Obviously this is an incredibly hard issue for me to think through and that is why I am asking only for serious responses from concerned people on this website. Thank You.