Regardless of your age if you have not created legal instructions for the hospitals to pull the plug what is your reason? Afraid to think about it? Don't believe it can happen to you? Believe your family should spend every dime to maintain you in a carrot state? Believe God will decide? Believe it is murder?
Regardless of your age if you have not created legal instructions for the hospitals to pull the plug what is your reason? Afraid to think about it? Don't believe it can happen to you? Believe your family should spend every dime to maintain you in a carrot state? Believe God will decide? Believe it is murder?
I don't want them to "pull the plug" on me. I do not have a living will or DNR and do not intend to ever execute one, nor do I believe that I am morally obligated to end my life in a manner that is in the best financial interest of those I would leave behind.
Then you're choosing to let doctors decide when to stop and what to do in a manner that is in their best financial interests.
Regardless of your age if you have not created legal instructions for the hospitals to pull the plug what is your reason? Afraid to think about it? Don't believe it can happen to you? Believe your family should spend every dime to maintain you in a carrot state? Believe God will decide? Believe it is murder?
i don't want them to "pull the plug" on me. I do not have a living will or dnr and do not intend to ever execute one, nor do i believe that i am morally obligated to end my life in a manner that is in the best financial interest of those i would leave behind.
Many people have trouble putting these documents together including Living Wills, Healthcare Powers of Attorney, regular Powers of Attorney, Last Will & Testament. We don't like to face our own mortality. We think it'll be expensive. We figure we'll do it "later."
The wise thing to do is to git 'er done asap. It's a kindness to one's family and a blessing to one's self. I know of not one person who regrets putting this paperwork together. On the other hand . . .
Be aware of what your beloved government will attempt to do with your savings if you don't legally forbid them. No one is happier to learn of our passing than our government. The "I don't want to think about it" approach is what the bloodsucking IRS loves to hear.
But would your wife be strong enough to make the right decision? Is she too emotional to make the right decision. Many doctors tend towards intervention(Drs, especially surgeons are action men.) Do you really want the full code? Have you discussed it with your wife.No I am not. My wife, not the doctors, gets to decide and gets to make that decision under state law whose language is incorporated into the general power of attorney she has from me whether or not I had executed said document. If I executed a living will or a DNR I could limit her power, but not expand upon it.
But would your wife be strong enough to make the right decision? Is she too emotional to make the right decision. Many doctors tend towards intervention(Drs, especially surgeons are action men.) Do you really want the full code? Have you discussed it with your wife.
Lets not even think about the financial incentives of those left behind. The procedures that we posses to restart life are very violent. Usually they fail. Prolonged use of ventilators increase the risk of lung blow out, feeding tubes an cause irritation, central lines can get infected.
Drs all have their horror stories, a geriatric vegetable with cancer who for 3 weeks undergoes invasive treatments due to the orders of the family, etc.
Regardless of your age if you have not created legal instructions for the hospitals to pull the plug what is your reason? Afraid to think about it? Don't believe it can happen to you? Believe your family should spend every dime to maintain you in a carrot state? Believe God will decide? Believe it is murder?
Regardless of your age if you have not created legal instructions for the hospitals to pull the plug what is your reason? Afraid to think about it? Don't believe it can happen to you? Believe your family should spend every dime to maintain you in a carrot state? Believe God will decide? Believe it is murder?
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