[goldstategop]

Is our loveable fuzzball - the EIB Superstar ready for the inevitable? He's made sure every one knows exactly what his wishes are when the time comes so there's no debate over what's going to happen afterwards. None of that misplaced "compassion" being demonstrated for Terri Schiavo. The events of the last two weeks will make many of us review our living wills to make sure no one takes our life away before Our Maker calls us home.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Servant of the 9]

How pitiful to be that afraid of death.

SO9

[Miss Marple]

Here is what I told my husband:

If I am brain dead and on a ventilator and/or heart/kung machine, pull the plug.

If I am like Terry Schiavo, make sure I am fed, watered, and kept clean. Have someone wheel me out into the fresh air once a day. Feel free to get a divorce and moce on, as long as you make sure I have good care. And make sure that Fox News is on the TV in my room.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I'm involved in a civil action. Wonder if I could get an AMD thrown in as a bonus ?

[goldstategop]

To Admin Mod: please insert Time with the first letter capitalized when the word The and Comes. Thanks.

[LS]

The problem is, 99% of the people here either have living wills or will rush out to get one this week. I know I am, and it will be abundantly clear.

[OldFriend]

Living wills will be no more sacrosanct than Last Will and Testament.

The Courts find a way to appease the person suing most of the time.

[Fester Chugabrew]

Living Wills are an invitation to litigation and unnecessary government intervention. Shall we draft legal documents to address every circumstance under which our lives pass from here to there? I'd like a document to exhonerate any driver who might happen to cause my demise while said driver is DUI.

[NeoCaveman]

I'm requesting a plug with an extension chord!

[RockAgainsttheLeft04]

I don't at all support what is happening to Terri Schiavo as we speak, because I believe that the removal of her feeding tube is probably in direct violation of her Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs (she was a strict Catholic, and her family and friends believe that she thought suicide to be a sin). This is a murder, plain and simple, because the will of the dying woman was never taken into account, and it makes me sick.

On the other hand, I know what I'd want if I was ever in the state that Terri is in, and I've made that will very well known to my family and friends (but I still have to get it in writing). I don't want to be placed on any form of "artificial" life should I wind up in such a state. No tubes, no plugs...just let me die in peace. I get lonely and sad fairly easily, and an imprisonment within my own body, minus my free will, isn't one that I want to live.
If I have no hope of ever being able to recover from a life of tube-fueled monotony and being an economic/emotional burden on my family though the troopers would never admit it), I will have nothing more to offer the world and will have no reason to live on. Furthermore, I think that maybe one doesn't have to actually stop breathing for God to tell them when it's over.

[PhatHead]

"Oh, wow, I would love to die with music playing and I would love to die with flowers around. I would love to die with a pet tabby cat animal in my arm. What a wonderful room! What a wonderful situation,"

Sounds like Soylent Green...

[GOPJ]

Rush needs to make more of this stuff public. This loyal fan is impressed:

For example, anybody named as a beneficiary in my will who participates in the removal of a feeding tube gets cut out of the will. I have made it very plain.

[tutstar]

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