Anna is an 84 year old female who is confined to a nursing home. She is unable to eat orally due to paralysis of er thro

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Anna is an 84 year old female who is confined to a nursing home.
She is unable to eat orally due to paralysis of er throat and is
fed through a tube in her stomach. She entered the nursing home six
months ago due to a CVA she suffered at home. After much
rehabilitation, she is able to ambulate, dress, and toilet herself
without assistance. Within the past year, she has lost her husband,
for whom she had been the primary caregiver for the past four
years, and her only child moved out of the area due to an
employment change.
Anna is alert, oriented, and competent. She has expressed to
staff that the life she leads is now not worth living. She has
requested that her feedings be stopped and that she be allowed to
die. Her son, upon hearing about this, asked that her priest be
contacted to talk with his mother because "doing this is clearly
against his mother's religious beliefs". The priest was contacted
and visited Anna. Although Anna has had some "good days" since the
priest's visit, she has begun again asking to stop her feedings.
The doctor has been notified and will address this issue with Anna
tomorrow. The ethics committee chairperson has made the
administrator aware of the situation. If you were the
administrator, what would you do? What can you legally and
ethically do?