... as long as I can ...I am reminded of this version of a living will my husband and I have agreed to ;~D
I, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.
If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for pizza and a cold beer, it should be presumed that I won’t do so ever again. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my spouse, children and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day.
Under no circumstances shall any video footage of me in a vegetative state be plastered all over on national TV.
Under no circumstances shall the members of any Legislature or Congress enact a special law to keep me on life-support machinery. It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own damn business, and pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of Americans who aren’t in a permanent coma and who nonetheless may be in need of nourishment.
Under no circumstances shall any politicians butt into this case. I don’t care how many fundamentalist votes they’re trying to scrounge for their run for the presidency in 2008, it is my wish that they play politics with someone else’s life and leave me alone to die in peace.
I couldn’t care less if a hundred religious zealots send e-mails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me. I don’t know these people, and I certainly haven’t authorized them to preach and/or crusade on my behalf. They should mind their own damn business, too.
If anyone goes against my wishes, turns my case into a political cause and enlists the ‘aid’ of self-serving charlatans such as Randall Terry and Jesse Jackson, I hereby promise to come back from the grave and make his or her existence a living hell.
You are not keeping to the facts of Terri's case. She was not at the end of life. She was deliberately murdered by the withholding of food and drink.
Here is a case of another who was in a similar predicament to Terri's, but in his case, a loving and supportive wife stood by her man...and yes...miracles do happen!
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050523/NEWS40/50513042
HAHAHAHA ... good one!
... as long as I can ...Fair enough?
The point being that you really do have to be much more specific than what you wrote. Otherwise you rely on other folk's opinions, and some people are just downright malevolent.
If you and the euthanasia crowd get their way people like my spouse will not ever get a chance to live.
This is not about what you and your spouse want it's about the presidence that is being set. I know you saw the AMA report. With the support of people like you and the Euthanasia lobbyists in Clearwater who promoted Terri's death, the AMA just this week created a presumption of death. People who they determine are disposable and have no guardian or a living will die as a result.
What else would you like to impose on myself and my family by supporting this movement?
My spouse suffered severe brain damage (prognosis poor)and had only a 10% chance of living.
Thank God they were wrong at a time when the presumption of life was the standard.
Although the presumption of life has changed, doctors will continue to be wrong and people are going to die needlessly without a chance.
Bottom line...Keep yours and your spouse's "dying" will to yourselves.
My spouse and I have a will to live.