Why, why,why don't these folks divorce their 'troublesome' spouse, especially since the family wishes to make sure they cared for.
And the man indicated he wanted to live!!
Thanks for such a valuable link. I just got off the phone with my mom, she's retired and said she would be happy to make some phone calls from the contact numbers we get.
I shared some of the vignettes posted on here with her and she is willing to get a couple of her friends to make calls too.
Very good. And make sure she also understands that it's obvious that having a Living Will is NOT going to ensure that her wishes are followed.
It has been suggested that people use the "Will to Live" instead. Isn't this ridiculous? You now have to have it in WRITING that you want to live. If you don't have it in writing, that's an excuse to kill you. If you have a living will that doesn't cover every single situaton, spelled out, they'll use any ambiguity to kill you. Of course, by necessity, it is ambiguous, as none of us can read minds and know what illness/disability will befall us in the future; we don't know how laws will be changed after we can no longer speak for ourselves and then have laws applied to us retroactively; we don't know if the "reasonable person" standard will be met by a judge whose reasonableness is unreasonable.....it's absurd.