Group warns against living wills

World Net Daily ^ | April 1, 2005 | staff

[tessalu]

This is very important, maybe even more important than you think. Lawyers and Undertakers need business, and they need you to co-operate with them.

[Dog Gone]

Well, if you're such an idiot that you fill out a living will without knowing what it says, you deserve what you get.

[still_learning]

Plus there is that little clause where they can end your life in the event you donated money to the Republican Party.

[HKTechBoy]

I guess we need to update it to RTFLW

[I still care]

This is a good one. It is from the national right to life.

http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/willtolive/index.html

[Fitzcarraldo]

The medical arts are advancing steadily. What is hopeless today might not be in five or ten years.

[Larry Lucido]

I thought a "living will" means that you will go on living.

[concerned about politics]

My husband is an accountant for subsidized housing (you would not believe how the government just throws our tax dollars away!), and he was chatting this week with a "Poor peoples rights" lawyer. The lawyer said he had to take a class on living wills, and he said living wills are pretty much irrelevant. They're not worth the paper they're written on.
Most doctors will do what the families who are there say. What's the dead person going to do about it? Sue?

[Keith in Iowa]

Living Wills are not enough. You also need to have a set of advanced health care directives in place, that specifically sets out what you do and do not want; you also need to give someone you trust a power of attorney for health care matters in the event you can not speak for yourself - and that person needs to be fully familiar with your wishes.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I thought a "living will" means that you will go on living.

Now I think it means a will which is executed while you are still living (albiet in a coma).

[TASMANIANRED]

A living will is a guarantee you will get substandard medical care .

[MindBender26]

This is foolish.

The method of death is not the important issue. The issue is pain vs. prognosis.

If I was in intractable pain with no reasonable hope of recovery, but unable to communicate my wishes, I would want doctors/friends to do WHATEVER was necessary to end my suffering.

Remember the end of "Flight of the Intruder?"

"I'd do it for you, Buddy!"

[MindBender26]

This is foolish.

The method of death is not the important issue. The issue is pain vs. prognosis.

If I was in intractable pain with no reasonable hope of recovery, but unable to communicate my wishes, I would want doctors/friends to do WHATEVER was necessary to end my suffering.

Remember the end of "Flight of the Intruder?"

"I'd do it for you, Buddy!"

[Fitzcarraldo]

A living will means you fork out $800-$3000 to a strange lawyer who spoke to your church group about the importance of having a living will.

[Enterprise]

Thank you for signing a "living will" Miss Chen. We have great need of some of your organs, one here, one there, but not all at once. And oh, I'm sorry, we are out of anesthesia.

[Larry Lucido]

If you don't want to keep living, I think you would execute a "living won't."

[Dog Gone]

It depends on state law, but generally they direct how much medical effort you wish to be extended on your behalf if you're unable to communicate.

They can, in some case, amount to "kill me whenever legally possible" directives.

[RightWhale]

The group that warns against groups that warn against living wills will be on the Art Bell Show tonight.

[uglybiker]

Undertakers don't care. They're gonna get your business sooner or later anyways.

[mjtobias]

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