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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 01:31 PM
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Poll question: If you were in a persistent vegetative state...
If you were in a persistent vegetative state, would you want to be kept alive artificially?
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 01:34 PM
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1. My family has instructions
to hold a pillow over my face before they'd allow this to happen to me.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:02 PM
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4. Very good, Cat.
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 01:35 PM
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2. Hell NO! And I have a Durable Power of Attorney that states just that!
The man that is to be my "agent" in the event that the DPOA is needed is a hard assed, take no-shit attorney and not a member of my family. I want my wishes respected and I want someone that will fight for me when I cannot fight.

Don't rely on verbally expressing your wishes folks. Do a POA and make sure the person you put in charge has the balls to stand up for you.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:04 PM
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6. You got it, Merh!
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zippy890 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 01:36 PM
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3. no -especially when I started spouting off
republican ideology.

(is there a toungue-in-cheek smiley)
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:07 PM
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8.  Hee hee hee! ;-)
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Inland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:03 PM
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5. Yes! Keep my brainstem, AI canal functioning forever!
Bankrupt my family, force them to visit me every day, pay me my SS retirement benefits, let me tie up a bed and medical team until my medulla oblongata simply falls apart in 2170.

It's not for everyone, but it really is a dream of mine.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:09 PM
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11. Dayum! ;-(
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:07 PM
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7. If anyone is in such a state, how would they know?
Sort of like asking a potato if it prefers boiling or frying.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:08 PM
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9. True, but it's not a very dignified way to live...
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:13 PM
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15. I agree. This ghoulish circling of the vultures is disgusting.
The question should be, why has it taken so long for her wishes to be carried out?

My wife and I both have living wills forbidding such interference.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:39 PM
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16. Her family should have listened to her husband, but they prefer...
...she lie there like a hundred pounds of meat. Her intellect is long gone.
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Maine-ah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:09 PM
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10. we had to take my father off of life support. The hardest
thing we ever had to do. But thats what he wanted, and voiced it many times. The same goes for me.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:10 PM
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13. I had to do the same. You did your duty, as I did.
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cestpaspossible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:10 PM
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12. I don't think I would care one way or the other
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:12 PM
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14. Would your family feel any better watching you take years to die?
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cestpaspossible Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 02:54 PM
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17. I guess if I had a family you could ask them
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 03:09 PM
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18. Oops, sorry about that. :-(
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Undercover Owl Donating Member (621 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-19-05 04:09 PM
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19. No!
I wouldn't want to make some nurse clean off my bedsores, and suction mucus out of the feeding tube every hour, if I weren't going to wake up someday.
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-21-05 05:57 AM
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20. Me, neither.
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