Motto: "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing."
Starving am innocent person to death is considered a good thing? Did they enjoy the burning of innocents in WACO while eating a bowl of popcorn? This too, was sanctioned by the US Govt and Judges because those holy zealots were considered evil.
Tarantulas and the rest of the posters that would prefer death by man than to die natural, we are not trying to take this "right" away from you. Trust me when I say , I personally can't think of a better group of people that should have their wishes granted. Go have your living wills done and I'm sure your love ones will appreciate not having a guilty conscience when they feel their inheritance is more important than carrying for you. Please for all of us, GET THE LIVING WILL DONE. In fact, why not just end it now. I mean we are all going to die sometime so why not now? Why wait till some misfortune may hit? Why put yourself thru any discomfort? Go ahead, starve yourself now, I can promise society will be better for it. Please if your living will has not been done, do it today. God forbid if anyone should make you live one more day than you should be allowed. PLEASE DO IT NOW, I BEG YOU!!!!
It is unwise to rush to have a living will done by practitioners from the same branch of government that has exercised this power to kill. I also worry that the wording might end up tied to funding or lack thereof in law for disability care, or, that if a person doesn't have one in future somehow, the physicians will just kill you by default. Interpretation of the wording now of such instruments will open its own vigorous law practice, and permit doctors to end the lives of people who might otherwise recover but for these documents. Finally, I do not want a euthanasia advocate dressed in sheep's clothing to hand me my hemlock-laced death warrant. I keep hearing the line from the old WWII movies, "Do you have your papers?"