Dewey: All your outcomes on "pull the plug" assume that he dies right away.
Hal: Yes, Dewey, that's what pulling the plug means.
Dewey: Not necessarily. He could continue to live without his respirator, his body wasting away while he struggles for breath like a fish on a dock gasping for air, slowly suffocating over the course of weeks or even months. I read about this one-
Hal: Thank you, Dewey. Like I don't get enough of the know-it-all stuff from Malcolm.