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To: ConorMacNessa
"I have a living will. It says I refuse to die one nanosecond before the Lord is ready to take me."

I agree with you, and formed my opinions after watching 2 specific instances.

In the first, my father had a stroke and was in a "vegetative state". The Dr asked if I wanted to feed him, and when I said yes he argued with me. "He could live like that for 20 years.""He will never get better".... etc etc. I told him when God wanted him home the Dr wouldn't be able to keep him here. Dad woke up 10 days later and we had the best 2 years of our lives after that.

The second also involved a stroke. Mr G was at a hospital and overhearing the conversation of the relatives of the stroke victim. They were asked if he had a living will and when told he did the medical personnell took him to a different room, removed all life sustaining support, and let them sit with him to die. No one explained he could recover, or that perhaps the ventilator was a temporary measure of support (like with my father), or that these drugs will reduce swelling (they removed IVs)and on and on. They just removed him to a room to die. It was freakily cold blooded.

Mr G and I say be heroic. If we are ready to go, God will take us.

12 posted on 09/28/2007 6:13:36 PM PDT by Grammy
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To: Grammy
my father had a stroke and was in a "vegetative state". The Dr asked if I wanted to feed him, and when I said yes he argued with me. "He could live like that for 20 years.""He will never get better".... etc etc. Dad woke up 10 days later and we had the best 2 years of our lives after that.

Did the doctor have anything to say after your Dad woke up?

14 posted on 09/28/2007 6:38:37 PM PDT by DumpsterDiver
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