Causing some decreased mentation

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The elderly (74 year old) cancer patient with metastatic disease including brain mets, causing some decreased mentation, but without a living will, is no longer eating. The family is divided: some requesting you insert a PEG, or at the least an NG tube, and others requesting no interventions. What will you do/advise?

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