People who say they wouldn't want to live "like this"-don't forget to consider the withdrawal of food and water you are asking your loved ones to enact and suffer thru weeks of viewing an ugly death.
Altho I have made my living will, my state allows one to choose whether they want to still receive food/water, yet be "unplugged" from respirators.(or kidney machines, etc)
Many people have no concept of which life sustaining devices are which, regarding continuance of breathing, heart or kidney functioning, etc.
All thru this debacle of fighting for Terri, it is never mentioned im the press the fact that ONLY people declared to be dead within 6 months are allowed HOSPICE CARE, I know for sure, having had a loved one use this service.
Why have they been allowed (by law or judge?) to keep her in a TERMINAL FACILITY? Hospice is a place you go to die.
Can anyone answer this question?
oh my....good point about the horrible death by starvation. Maybe I would be willing to live in such a state...that just seems to much like suicide to me to put that in a living will, which is sin.
It has been illegal from day one, but following the law is something Judge Greer likes to pick and choose on.