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To: Scotswife

I can’t imagine making that decision, but at least you had someone there who could help you through it.

My father in law is a physician and I have made it very clear to him and in my living will under what circumstances to terminate life support.


95 posted on 07/05/2007 4:19:22 PM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

“My father in law is a physician and I have made it very clear to him and in my living will under what circumstances to terminate life support.”

By “life support” do you mean the ventilator?

Even if we hadn’t gone the route of donation - we had no legal means of fighting a disconnection.
Once brain death was declared, the doctors had the legal righ to turn off the ventilator.


98 posted on 07/05/2007 4:25:55 PM PDT by Scotswife
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