Just read a book called The Day I Died by Steve Sjogren. Steve is a pastor of a church. He went in for routine gall-bladder surgery, and the inexperienced surgeon cut his aorta in two places with a laser. He died for 7 minutes. He was revived, but was very ill and put on a respirator. The doctors told his wife that night that they should TURN OFF THE RESPIRATOR AND LET HIM DIE. She refused.
He went through a long, hard recovery, but is practically back to pre-surgery health now! He said in the book that he would never, ever have a "living will". The doctors in his case would have killed him.
He is now planning to move to Florida to start a new church. Uh-oh, maybe he should be warned!!
Bump! We will go over 1,000 today and I'm glad that Steve Sjogren is alive and that his wife didn't listen to the doctors.
If people understood the dangers of living wills, they might not be so happy about making them. Most living wills go at it with erring on the side of death vs. erring on the side of life.