For the Record
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ursulav because she said it so well. I'll be revising my will/living will before my next birthday to reflect this as well, and have already put it in a letter to my parents.
I'm thinking that our Memorial Day SOS is going to have a lot to do with CPR/First Aid training and updating/creating our living wills.
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For the record--not that my parents are that crazy, but since Congress and Dubya seem to have a wild hare up their asses on this one, I figure I might as well state it as [publicly] as possible--if I have no brain and am in a persistant vegitative state, LET ME DIE, ALREADY.
Seriously. If anybody's trying to make an argument like "She might not be totally brain dead!" frankly, that strikes me as even worse. Mother of god, at least people in jail for 15 years can walk around the cell and read books. If I'm that far down, let me go. Being a tiny, non-sentient voice crying in the dark of a broken brain is not how I wish to spend my allotted span.
The really noxious thing about all this is that we're even having the discussion. Generally the discussion is good, but in this case, it's just idiocy. This ought to be a non-issue. It should be absolutely and positively none of the government's business. We really need a party in power that's opposed to big government interefering in people's personal lives.
Like...oh...there was a party like that once...can't remember the name...
ursulav because she said it so well. I'll be revising my will/living will before my next birthday to reflect this as well, and have already put it in a letter to my parents.I'm thinking that our Memorial Day SOS is going to have a lot to do with CPR/First Aid training and updating/creating our living wills.
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For the record--not that my parents are that crazy, but since Congress and Dubya seem to have a wild hare up their asses on this one, I figure I might as well state it as [publicly] as possible--if I have no brain and am in a persistant vegitative state, LET ME DIE, ALREADY.
Seriously. If anybody's trying to make an argument like "She might not be totally brain dead!" frankly, that strikes me as even worse. Mother of god, at least people in jail for 15 years can walk around the cell and read books. If I'm that far down, let me go. Being a tiny, non-sentient voice crying in the dark of a broken brain is not how I wish to spend my allotted span.
The really noxious thing about all this is that we're even having the discussion. Generally the discussion is good, but in this case, it's just idiocy. This ought to be a non-issue. It should be absolutely and positively none of the government's business. We really need a party in power that's opposed to big government interefering in people's personal lives.
Like...oh...there was a party like that once...can't remember the name...
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Long & Loud Rant
Date: 2005-03-21 06:44 pm (UTC)This is not about the quality of life or the possible miracle of renewing life this is simply about the guilt of part of the family not being able to let go
I have seen way too many clinically brain dead patients. Atrophied muscles constricting as internal organs slowly die out.
Yes we all want hope and want our person to be that miracle. Yet it has been proven time and gain in this case that this poor body is not going to return. Her spirit is on hold waiting to move on.
Kill Bill was fiction, this is real life. Even more importantly I detest the portrayal given out by congressman, who has no clue how the scenario works.
Infact the tube is not just yanked out and the patient left to die in a room. They patient is maintained as long as there are respirations and a heart beat. The patient is given pain meds to keep the patient comfortable and pain free.
For me I do not want to be trapped because my family does not have the courage to let me go. I have told them I will haunt the hell out of anybody who keeps me here longer than I need to be.
There are times that loving someone is letting them go.
We will not even get into the ethics of Congress dictating policy over the wishes of a spouse.
It just galls me that the “Right for life Crowd” is all up in this. Yet they are all about the death penalty for felon. Is there a wall in their mouths so they have to talk out of both sides?
Further gripping my black ass!!!! These jerks can come together on a Sunday during spring break in an emergency session to say no you can not die yet and they can not fix shit else that is really wrong with this country or this world .
Excuse me but WTF is up with that??!!!
Ok, deep breath and back to living my own life now. Just needed to go there