Gary Coleman's wife may have jumped the gun on pulling the plug.The "Diff'rent Strokes" star's living will required the actor to be kept alive unless he was in an irreversible coma for 15 days, CNN reports.
Ex-wife Shannon Price, with whom Coleman was living at the time of his injury, reportedly ordered doctors to disconnect the actor's life support only one day after he fell into a coma last month following a fall that resulted in a brain hemorrhage.
Two years prior to his death, Coleman had signed a document in October 2006 naming Price as his medical decision maker. His living will stated that his life support should end if two doctors were consulted and decided "my condition is incurable, terminal and expected to result in my death within 12 months."
The 42-year-old actor also noted that he should be let go if doctors "have diagnosed that I have been in a coma for at least 15 days and that the coma is irreversible, meaning that there is no reasonable possibility of my ever regaining consciousness."
But according to a spokesman for the Utah Medical Association, a family member's wishes are more important that the deceased's living will.
Meanwhile, a judge has ordered that Coleman's remains are to be cremated by Wednesday afternoon.
Though the actor died on May 28, his cremation has been delayed because Price and Coleman's former girlfriend, Anna Gray, have been wrangling over his assets. Both women claim they are legal administrators of his estate as Gray is named in a 2005 will, while Price is named in a 2007 note that Coleman wrote to amend earlier wills.
A judge appointed lawyer Robert Jeffs to control Coleman's estate while the two women settle the dispute.
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