[sportutegrl]

Your please resuscitate bracelet could be a moneymaker. It seems to me that people only write living wills when they want to express a wish NOT to be kept alive by artificial or heroic means. Therefore, in the absence of a living will, one must assume the person wants to be kept alive. I have never yet heard of a living will expressing a desire to use all means available, but I guess they will be a coming feature.

[silverleaf]

in the absence of a living will, one must assume the person wants to be kept alive

Given what is happening to Terri Schiavo, and given the changes of definition and the broad delegation of "proxy" for decisionmaking to even a "friend", the pro-euthanasia industry has "gifted" Floridians in State Statute 765, with the legally upholdable presumption that a noncommunicative and helpless person would not want to live.

Choosing LIFE with pain or disability may now take a far stronger affirmation of intent, than choosing (or having the choice for you by hearsay or presumption) for the "peaceful beauty" of death.