Posted on 03/26/2005 6:13:09 PM PST by -=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-
btw...a living will, which might say that you don't want CPR,, will be ignored until the doctor signs the "NO Code" sticker... and makes it official for THAT admission....
not only that, but the ER docs if they are unfamiliar with the patient, will do almost everything to keep you alive, since he/she doesn't know if the problem you have is new or old....
POLST forms are the cadilacs' of living wills if you need one....it is a permanent record that you take everywhere.....apparently, a "POLST" form is the final word ......
Well written and so true! Sadly....
You said:
Presisely! If you request to be kept alive then they cannot put you to death. That is how I read the law. What troubles me is that there is apresumption that those like Terri do not want to be kept alive. Hearsay and innuendo should not qualify as ana ssumption. It isn't enough!
Did you know that the hearsay the judge based his decision on, was her brother-in-law and sister-in-law? hmmmnn...
I have no liberal friends, I put them behind me.
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