Do You Have A Living Will?

[arwalden]

If so... what does it say? Are your instructions to let you die naturally and to withhold food and water? Or are you to be kept alive indefinitely?

My living will specifies that only pain medication should be administered and that I be allowed to die.

[TahitiNut]

1. I want to be ventilated ...

... by being driven around the Island of Moorea in a convertible with the top down at 45 mph. It's the "wind sock" option. :evilgrin:

[DODI]

2. Just got one for my mom. I need to get one written.

I think once we all get our wills set up we should send them to Shrub, Jeb, Frist and DeLay. We have had several friends send us "requests" for death with dignity so we can keep them on file in case this type of issue comes up in their lives. Our gay friends are terrified -- especially the ones living in Virginia and Georgia -- the laws in those states don't recognize same-sex Powers of Attorney or Medical Power of Attorney, etc. documents.

[Heddi]

3. Yeppers

no artifical means of life.

no heroic measures

pain meds only

no food
no water
no vent
no respirator
no morbid viewing of the body once I'm gone
no funeral
no burial
No morbid fascination with some plaque on the ground that my remaining family feels some strange obsession to visit every christmas and put fake poinsettas upon.
No worries that once my family dies, that my body is left to rot lonely in the ground without any visitors or fake poinsettas on Christmas

I want to be high as a kite on Morphine and have my body cremated and ashes sprinkled in the ocean and in my favourite cities (Charleston, Seattle, London, Amsterdam for starters).

Screw this morbid fascination with death and dying. It's a NATURAL PROCESS. It should not be lengthened or extended because of a gross disconnect from reality that some day, I'll get up and rollerskate out of the hospital. Let me go peacefully and naturally and without tubes in every orifice.

Screw that.

[medeak]

4. made one yesterday

my favorite part was agreeing to all pain medication even if it may hasten death.