To: cake_crumb
Correction: "Sad part about the specificity of Florida law on including sustenance as a
'life-prolonging procedure'."
That is a frightening concept. I'm thinking of my husband, who spent 8 months in 1978-79 in a coma after a motorcycle accident. IV's could be considered "artificially provided sustenance and hydration" and therefore illegal for someone else in a similar situation.
7 posted on
09/17/2003 1:30:38 PM PDT by
cake_crumb
(UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
To: cake_crumb
This case has done a LOT of good informing many people about what constitutes "life support".
Since I've been reading all this, my husband and I have discussed what we would do if one or the other were to become so incapacitated. I had already decided that I would want to exhaust every avenue for rehab for myself or him.
His opinion:
"ALWAYS err on the side of life."
I married a wise man :-)
12 posted on
09/17/2003 2:40:08 PM PDT by
Marie Antoinette
(Yes, those little cigar choppers make me *extremely* nervous!)
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