In the Intensive Care Unit of hospitals, the biggest dilemma of choice is knowing when to withhold and when to withdraw potentially life supporting system where majority of the death cases are preceded. Bio-ethics, in this niche provide ambiguous advice. That’s because the focus is more on the moral value of withholding or withdrawing the support system, instead of focusing more on the awareness, intervention options and how interpersonal values are discussed and enacted. It is imperative to seek patient’s consent before proceeding, but in critical situation it becomes difficult to abide by obligations to secure consent. This research paper encompasses the question about how the choice of withholding and withdrawing faces different ethical concerns, both with positive and negative interpretations and how this situation has highlighted futility in the ICU.

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