Look, if you want someone to kill you if you are ever disabled to the point where you cannot talk, put it in a living will and have it witnessed, signed, and notarized.
One of the appalling aspects of the Terri Schindler case was that there was NOT any such legal document, and the law (in the form of Judge Greer) presumed that the default action in such a situation should be to kill. This is a grotesque departure on what the law has been since the founding of our country.
Since I'm trying to fill out these living will papers today, perhaps other Freepers could advise me. How many of you have directed that you want to live as long as possible, with all possible treatments, in the event that you become as disabled as Terri Schiavo? What guides your thinking on this?
Actually, since the founding of Israel, about 500 BC. The Jews were the ONLY Mediterranean culture which did not kill off their unwanted children and adults--a fact remarked upon by contemporaneous historians. For a while, the USA operated under those principles, too.