How a Living Will can bring about your premature death

RFFM.org ^ | August 12, 2008 | Bill Beckman

[Daniel T. Zanoza]

Precautions and Alternatives

From the Editor: This is the second in a series of columns first posted on the Illinois Right to Life Committee's (IRLC) website [http://www.illinoisrighttolife.org/] written by Bill Beckman, IRLC's executive director. The RFFM.org re-posting of the column discusses how living wills can cancel out the wishes of patients and loved ones regarding end of life issues. Also, readers can learn how to seek out alternatives to living wills and find ways to ensure their end of life issues are respected and adhered to. Included are examples of how living wills have been used to disregard patients rights.

The following was written by Bill Beckman:

We knew the push for living wills based on the Terri Schiavo case would be dangerous to people who took the bait. Recently, some cases are coming to light that confirm our fears about the dangers of such documents. A living will has nothing to do with living, but everything to do with dying...

[dmz]

Why are you defending a document that results in vaible peoples deaths when there are better alternatives?

Clearly because I want viable people dead. Do I need a sarcasm tag for that?

Why won't you recognize that you are painting the vast middle with a tiny extreme. Or that the story you are using as a hammer against living wills is from a completely biased source, as has been demonstrated by fellow freeper GovernmentShrinker's much more illuminating story he linked to.

[DJ MacWoW]

So using this document, a Living Will, to kill a few people that you don't know is ok? Oh and I don't need this story. Read the 2 posts by Freepers who have seen Living Wills used to kill.

So I will ask you again. Why do you defend an obviously flawed document when there are better alternative forms?