[Ohioan from Florida]

The provisions of the living will had never been met, yet it was the document that ruled the day.

The euthanasiasts have planned it this way. Your dad's case is, I think, probably very common. Every hospital and health care facility regularly brings living wills and advance directives forms forward and puts pressure on the patient to sign them. Months before my dad died they asked him to sign them every couple of weeks. He repeatedly told them no. I am grateful to him for showing me that you can die just as well without them.

[cherry]

"Every hospital and health care facility regularly brings living wills and advance directives forms forward and puts pressure on the patient to sign them."

in my state, its MANDATED that you ask the patient if he has a living will or similar, there is no requiremnt that he have one nor is it required that he sign up "quick"......

maybe you have heard of families suing because daddy or mommy was resuscitated even though there was a "living will" at home in the safe deposit box.....

the lawyers and the courts have made it impossible .....

Geez....we have one state that voted to allow people to commit suicide by doctor, and we have families mad because dad's living will was fulfilled and mad when dad's living will was not fulfilled.......

there is no way to do the "right" thing in today's climate....

[Wampus SC]

"The euthanasiasts have planned it this way."

Yep, obviously so. Now you can't even revoke your own living will, and that's as insane as it is evil.

When Terri was still alive I said that in several years medical personnel would be killing people against their will, regardless of living wills or advance directives.

I was wrong. It took less than a year! The euthanizers are more deeply entrenched than many thought.