by ♠~Dnbuster~♠ ~.
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January 4, 2008

Living Will??

August 16, 2009 08:20 PM EDT (Updated: August 16, 2009 08:27 PM EDT)
views: 82 | comments: 38

A living will is one form of advance directive, leaving instructions for treatment.

If you were incapacitated what would you want.

I dont want to be kept alive by machines.

If i become unable to make choices i want the machine turned off, what about you??

 

 

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Comments: 38

Beth G. Aug 16, 2009, 8:25pm EDT
If it came to the point of being in a vegetative state and there was no hope of recovery, just let me go, as clearly the soul was already gone by that point.
♠~Dnbuster~♠ ~. Aug 16, 2009, 8:32pm EDT
That how i feel Beth.
Paula Slade Aug 16, 2009, 8:29pm EDT
I'm not sure. I think this is something that I would talk with all my family before making a decision, which they will ultimately be responsible for carrying out and they would have to be comfortable with it.
♠~Dnbuster~♠ ~. Aug 16, 2009, 8:32pm EDT
Thats a great honest answer.
Paula Slade Aug 16, 2009, 10:11pm EDT
Thank you Dn. Your post is very thought provoking!
Dorothy H. Aug 16, 2009, 8:34pm EDT
If I am in a car wreck, and the condition is so bad that it is considered touch and go, with the idea I may most likely not make it? Do NOT try to save me!

If I am diagnosed with any type of cancer? I am refusing any kind of treatment other than pain medication, of which I plan to have enough to take all at once, to die as quickly as possable, when my condition deteriorates significantly.

If I am incapacitated, do not hook me up to any machines nor use any extrodinary, heroic measures to attempt to save me.

No resusitation, no resusitation, no resusitation!
S. M. K. Aug 16, 2009, 8:35pm EDT
i want to be a burden to my loved ones for as long as possible
Amanda "middle of nowhere" C. Aug 16, 2009, 8:36pm EDT
But I don't think you would be a burden to your loved ones. My mom is in fairly good shape for her age. She thinks she's a burden to us, but we cherish every moment.
S. M. K. Aug 16, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
i was kidding :P
♠~Dnbuster~♠ ~. Aug 16, 2009, 8:43pm EDT
SMK I like your answer!!
LOL
Amanda "middle of nowhere" C. Aug 16, 2009, 8:36pm EDT
I do not have a living will but my parents' do.
Len Maxwell Aug 16, 2009, 8:40pm EDT
I just recently made a new living will and delivered it to my oldest son. He's the closest of my children and I trust him to carry out what I want. I do not want to be kept alive. I have told him, and with this in writing, that I want the plug pulled.
♠~Dnbuster~♠ ~. Aug 16, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
Its great to have it in writing. Thats what i am working on now. My kids know my wishes, now my family will know too.
JoAnn C. Aug 16, 2009, 8:50pm EDT
I don't want to be kept alive by machines.
Nora J A. Aug 16, 2009, 8:52pm EDT
Gues I'm with the majority here, if the decsion is "life support" for flat brain waves, definitely DNR!
Elizabeth S. Aug 16, 2009, 8:54pm EDT
Only if there was no hope of recovery would I want to pull the plug. Amend that, recovery withing a short period of time. I don't want to lie there for 2 years because of a future possible recovery.
Lisa C. Aug 16, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
I've told all of my family my wishes, but I really need to put it in writing. I told them if I am brain dead or in a vegetative state, they had BETTER pull the plug. If they don't, I told them I will come back to haunt them, LOL!
♠~Dnbuster~♠ ~. Aug 16, 2009, 9:03pm EDT
LOL, i plan on haunting my in laws..lol
Vivian P. Aug 16, 2009, 9:26pm EDT
me neither however I want food and water just no machines keeping me alive. No CPR I want to meet my maker when I'm called
Kelly Kay Aug 16, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
A living will, is best for everyone involved, no one has to make life decisions for anyone else, and there is no fighting, it is all written as the person chooses. Also, a POA of real property & real estate should be signed when the time comes. In IL. now you can put on the title of your car who the beneficiary is, it cuts down on legal fees and there are no questions. I feel as many things you can do to shorten the Probate process, the better.
Sandy (back in Ohio...blah!) Aug 16, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
If there is no ope and it is only draining my family..I say let me go. But it is chance or something that has not been done yet that may give me my quality of life back...I say let me live.....watch me live....watch me gain strife and be productive again.
Risa G. Aug 16, 2009, 9:45pm EDT
I have a living will. I made it known that I don't want to be kept alive. My husband has the same thing.
Elaine A. Aug 16, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
I say no hope, let me go, no machines.
Anna H. Aug 16, 2009, 10:08pm EDT
I never want to be a vegetable and a burden.
Brian T. Aug 16, 2009, 10:16pm EDT
I have a living will and and so glad and no machines for me either.
Cecilia Lyne Aug 16, 2009, 10:25pm EDT
We do not have a will and keep meaning to do it. If there was no way that I would recover I would want the machines to be turned off too.
lena k. Aug 16, 2009, 11:01pm EDT
i don't think i would want to die i would like to think there is alwas hope
Heather C. Aug 16, 2009, 11:38pm EDT
My parents had living wills. It helped when my Dad had a stroke. They asked me about putting a feeding tube in and since the stroke put out both lobes I decided to keep him on an iv. An iv will keep you alive and it was my fathers wished not to be kept alive by machines. I felt if there was any hope in two days we would know. They also wanted to put him in hospice. In the two days between his liver problems and his stroke, he passed away.

I don't think putting a feeding tube in would have helped him live longer, because of his liver problems, I think he would have died sooner.

He made me his medical surrogate because I was the one taking care of him and the one living near him.
Janie E. Aug 17, 2009, 12:33am EDT
My hubby and I know each others wishes, but it's still a good thing to have a living will. Being kept alive by artificial means isn't for either of us.
Melanie S. Aug 17, 2009, 12:41am EDT
Amazing things can sometimes happen when given a chance. I would not want the machines simply turned off. Give it a little time first.

However, I wouldn't want to be on machines for years. I would only want a chance, after that, let me go.
Steph-in-NE ..... Aug 17, 2009, 12:55am EDT
my folks has one,, my mom had to get her change abit when she requested dilyis,, it is a machine to proling life,, so now it is worded that no machine, for when she is unconciuos, and incapable to talk, or write,,
Steph-in-NE ..... Aug 17, 2009, 12:56am EDT
I jus twant to go to sleep and float down the river....
Tina B. Aug 17, 2009, 11:14am EDT
The whole Terry Schiavo incident got us talking about this, so I've put quite a bit of thought into it. If I were brain-dead, I would want to be unhooked. If I wasn't brain dead, I'd want to be kept hooked up to my feeding tubes into eternity on the off chance that I might wake up one day.
Don M. Aug 17, 2009, 8:48pm EDT
I was at a hospital, and I met this woman she was telling me she has been visiting her husband for lunch for the last two years.I looked in on him he was all wired up with a machine keeping him alive....not for me.
I dont want to be kept alive by machines.....Blessings Don.
Shaunee C. Aug 17, 2009, 11:18pm EDT
I wouldn't want to live on a machine either espically if I was in a vegtable state of mind
Carol P. Aug 18, 2009, 1:40pm EDT
No vegetated state of mind wanted here.
Kenn T. Aug 18, 2009, 1:43pm EDT
Semi-vegetated, on the other hand, can be delightful on a daily basis. I've been S-V for a few years now.
Amber C. Aug 19, 2009, 8:42pm EDT
Well, I certainly don't want them to let me die by starvation. I've seen enough of that on the news and I won't go into how I feel about that. But would I want the machines unplugged? If there was absolutely no brain function, then I would certainly want that. I don't have a living will, but my parents know what I want. They've discussed their own wishes with me. We all agree if any of us has to make the decision, we will not be left on life support.

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