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What will your Living Will say?
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Capital city of the Empire State.
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Okay, we know that the Pope wants to hang around as long as he possibly can.
How about you?
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"I sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up."
MacBook Pro 15" w/ Mac OS 10.8.2, iPhone 4S & iPad 4th-gen. w/ iOS 6.1.2
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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I am still undecided, so for now my living will is going to say this: Do nothing irreversible. If that means that I die when some irreversible procedure would have saved me, then so be it. Otherwise, keep in mind that pulling the plug is also irreversible.
This is what I would have hoped that the law would do by default, risking error on the side of reversibility when a person's wishes are unknown, unverifiable, or (as in my case) nonexistent. I see now, however, that this will likely no longer be the case, and so I will have to codify it.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Copenhagen
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No cognitive functions = no reason for being physically alive.
The third option, 'if machines have to keep me alive' is sort of dangerous, 'cause you might be dependent on an oxygen machine to breathe for you in certain situations where it's fairly certain that you're going to pull through, like certain kinds of surgery.
But if I end up lying there like a vegetable, I don't want to be a continued burden to my family and friends, nor to society (probably sounds like I'm trying out for sainthood here, but I really think it's a waste). If they have to keep me artificially alive because I'm effectively brain dead, I don't want to be kept alive. Life isn't that precious to me; if it ends, it ends.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2003
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Brain Dead= Pull the plug
Coma w/ brain activity. Give me a few years before you pull the plug.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Hanging on the wall at Jabba's Palace
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Most people say 72 hours of braindead pull the plug.
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"Laugh it up, fuzz ball!"
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Reno, Nevada
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Originally posted by Secret__Police:
Brain Dead= Pull the plug
Coma w/ brain activity. Give me a few years before you pull the plug.
Here here!
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Theory - everything works in theory
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As I stated here, brain or no brain, keep me alive. I'm selfish, I know 
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: San Diego, CA, USA
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Kill me if I have no brain functions or no real way of perceiving the world (i.e. if I become Helen Keller). But if they have to turn me into a cyborg, that's fine with me.
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Chuck
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"Instead of either 'multi-talented' or 'multitalented' use 'bisexual'."
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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When I'm at the end of life, don't want extraordinary means. Just to be kept comfortable.
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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