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HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 05:12 PM Feb 2012

The other side of the coin with this "Prolife",,as in the ELDLERY

Again, LIFE no matter what, based on somebody ELSE'S theology on life. Remember, Terry Schiavo? I am old and now live in Florida. I do not want LIFE at any means. I do not want to LIVE AS A VEGETABLE. That is MY right to DENY medical threatment, even if it will result in my death. I do not want any RELIGIOUS organization, or the state of Florida, to tell me I MUST live as a vegetable. When I moved to Florida (not willingly), I wrote a Living Will to this effect. Do NOT FORCE me to be kept alive against my will because of YOUR RELIGION. I have lived my life. When it is my time to go, let me.

These things are all related. RELIGION imposing their teachings on others from birth to old age. Get out of my life, religious organizations, in particular the CATHOLIC CHURCH. Let me DIE when it is my time. Get your religion out of women's uteruses, and old women's, and MEN'S, deathbeds.

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The other side of the coin with this "Prolife",,as in the ELDLERY (Original Post) HockeyMom Feb 2012 OP
What brought this on? Has there been something new in the media that I missed? I am virgogal Feb 2012 #1
That post on Santorum and Social Security and Medicare HockeyMom Feb 2012 #3
This message was self-deleted by its author virgogal Feb 2012 #4
Get a living will CAPHAVOC Feb 2012 #2
you're in florida? living will etc means nothing MOVE pitohui Feb 2012 #5
 

virgogal

(10,178 posts)
1. What brought this on? Has there been something new in the media that I missed? I am
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 05:28 PM
Feb 2012

elderly and feel the way you do.

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
3. That post on Santorum and Social Security and Medicare
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 05:39 PM
Feb 2012

Like you must be a drug addict to become "hooked" on entitlements like SS and Medicare. On the one hand, their RELIGION says you MUST live no matter what. On the other hand, if you don't have a big fat retirment egg? You are a drug addict feeding on the government. Hello? You cannot have it both ways.

Pesonally, I would rather be dead than live as a vegetable.

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CAPHAVOC

(1,138 posts)
2. Get a living will
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 05:30 PM
Feb 2012

The form is provided online. Florida Statutes 765.303. You will need 2 witnesses and you can designate a surrogate if you wish. Give it to your Doc. Your Doc probably has the forms in his office too. It is easy and simple.

pitohui

(20,564 posts)
5. you're in florida? living will etc means nothing MOVE
Fri Feb 24, 2012, 09:25 PM
Feb 2012

one of my relatives was kept alive w. no brain functions for 20 years and she was WEALTHY and had a good lawyer

i would not live in florida as an old woman, multiple relatives have proved that your wishes will NOT be honored

i logged in specifically because i care, and i think the same as you, don't keep me alive w.out a brain just to deprive the younger members of my family of any kind of hope or inheritance, if you have ANYTHING they'll keep you alive to steal it from your survivors and they don't care if you're suffering and unable to understand

bitter? guess what, yes i am

schiavo got the publicity but she's just the iceberg, there is too much money to be made by draining the families of everything under the bullshit of "pro life" which really means torturing someone forever even when there is no hope and they can't even understand why they are suffering like this

if they are worried about younger family members pressuring the older ones for the money/inheritance, fuck it, pass the law that any inheritance has to go to charity or something, but don't keep someone alive w.out a brain for 20 years just suffering to no purpose, it makes me sick to think of it


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