Just curious how many have a living will to avoid a situation like the one presently unfolding in Florida and what most that have consider a reasonable length of time and under what conditions they pull the plug ?

 

Well with all the attention its been getting, I'm giving it some serious thought about it, and if I can't function on my own, then what needs to be done will be done.

As to how long,Hmmm have not gotten that far.

 

I've had a living will for some time, but in reality I would rather have some idiot politician make the decision.
Dono

 

In todays world it is very important to have one. Also you never know what will happen to cause you to need it.

 

My wife and I are working on them right now....no comment on the idiot politicians (although I have many opinions about them!)

 

What difference does it make if your family or Jeb Bush make the decision? You are BRAIN DEAD anyway. Do you think your family are gonna make the right decisions for you?
Hey get a living will, and get the lawyer involved. They are not known to be leeches on peoples estates or anything, they'll surely do the right thing morally.
Then everybody wins.
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Ringo: The whole idea of a living will is so that whoever is left behind on your behalf does not have to make any decission as you have already made it for them . No lawyers need be involved as you can write up your own on a piece of toilet paper as long as it is witnessed and notarized which costs around $30 .

No questions about who's responsible , no politics or religious opinions to consider no courts required to decide your fate only your last wishes to be carried out without a lot of fuss , same as a regular will only with the wishes expressed if any of us end up God forbid in this situation .

 

i have one . no machines and cremate whats left. throw the ashes to the sea.

 

THANKS Ringo! I feel the SAME way! And since I care for disabled adults, some of whom are like a certain someone...I DON'T EVEN wanna get started on this issue! Enough said.

 

Pee Wee: Ringo's post was not much related to the purpose or effects of a living will and they do not relate to the disabled such as my wife with advanced MS but to those who are brain dead and show no neuro electric activity in the areas of the brain that determine you are alive .

My hat is off to you as a caregiver on the job as this is a position I could not mentally handle myself and require a different breed to perform these duties for our family members who find themselves in a position to require your expertise.

My wife also worked for many years as a care giver and nurse in an old age home in our early married life and is now going to a home for the physically handicapped where the staff like yourself take some pride in their job and do everything possible to tend to her needs .

Happy Easter and I hope you get some of the weekend off as I'm aware that
the requirments of your job does not always put you at home on every weekend if it is like most places . Thanx from us just for doing what you do in life for a living and for others at the same time .

Living wills can also stipulate that one does not wish to be sustained by any artificial means no matter what their surviving condition would be for those of us that do not wish to spend 15 or 20 years counting the holes in ceiling tile
in a hospital ward some place like me for one .

If the situation now in the news was myself I would have been unhooked and gone 30 days after the Nuroligists diognosed no brain activity or a vegative state if no change occured in that period . That is what is stipulated and no one has to trouble their concience with it or have any regrets when my ashes like Capt. Charles are in The Bay and gone .

It is when no artificial support is required and the plug can not be pulled that now presents a problem for some who have to waste away for several years before being taken , against their wishes if they are unable to pull the pin for themselves .

 

Thanks for the compliment Jerry. My job may be hard for some people to understand (I have been in this field for over 20 yrs. in schools with severely profound young adults, to nursing homes) but I LOVE IT ...simply because of the joy and love I get in return from my clients. I get more satisfaction and rewards from this job than I could ever find in any other.

 

Yes on the living will, although it's hard to comment on the events in Florida.

PeeWee- consider yourself fortunate to have found a calling.

 

We were just talking about that this evening.I think it will be in the works sooner than later, now.

 

I need to make one. But I'm planning on making it simple. I want every machine, drug, therapy they've got-- forever. I want them to invent machines to put me on. I want to be kept alive untill all my financial resources are exhausted, then I want to become a ward of the state.

I don't want to put the burden of making the decision of whether I'm alive or not on my relatives. If I'm brain dead, I won't know or feel any of this anyway. If I'm not brain dead, there's a lot I can get used to. For example, would anyone here that can see want to give up their eyes? Do you think if you became blind you would want to die? Anyone with all thier limbs want to give up an arm? Think you'll want suicide if you loose one? It's easy to see someone in a bad situation and say I would never want to be in that condition, but people in hard situations have adapted to and accepted those same circumstances.

 

I agree with you about some, except I want a time line noted if I am certifiably brain dead.