That’s your choice but what about Hanford Pinette?
> That’s your choice but what about Hanford Pinette?
I did say that the article made a good point re: Medical Power of Attorney being superior to Living Wills w/r/t the wishes of the patient and their families.
I was answering the rhetorical question the author posed about “why not organ transplants? why is it about feeding tubes and ventilators?” Because people don’t want to merely exist as a hunk of inert protoplasm sucking in nutrients and excreting as the only characteristics of being alive. That’s why. And until the RTL recognize this deep-down wish to not be a hunk of meat with no prospects other than ingesting and excreting, they will never win battles here. Okay?
You know, I read the article, and could not find anyplace in which Hanford Pinette himself suggested that the terms of the living will should not be carried out. And the article did mention that he could speak, was alert and cognizant of his surroundings. Odd that he never said to the docs that he did not want his living will carried out, doncha think? Why do you think that was?