Well, that is obvious enough. Through all the drumbeat around living wills, it is obvious the motivation is to kill you with a minimum of legal fuss.
Instead, I have a Health Care Power of Attorney which says if I'm unable to communicate my own wishes, my wife speaks for me.
This way, neither Congress nor my parents nor any other bunch of well-meaning busybodies can stand in the way of my wife's telling the doctors when to let me depart from this mess.
I have been telling people this. When they say if you don't want them to pull the plug get a living will to which I respond they got it 180 degrees backward. You get a living will when you want them to kill you. But it is like talking to a wall, I sure hope you have better luck.
Amid the national crush to fill out living wills in the wake of the Terri Schiavo saga, a California pro-life group is warning citizens against signing that state's standard living will form, claiming it could result in a painful death by starvation and dehydration."
Amazing how the pro-death cult is able to take advantage of even pro-life setniment and use it to their advantage... now all these pro-life people are thinking "hmmm, I need a living will" and becoming big supporters of living wills, NOT UNDERSTANDING that 'living wills' was an invention of the death cultists to get people to say "Kill me when I become a 'useless eater'."
I told the wife, just don't starve me.
The thing that amazed me the most was how many hospital employees (nurses, techs) were in favor of simple DNRs. I guess it makes less work for them. If someone has a problem, just let them die, and have another cup of coffee. Unlike doctors, they don't get paid extra for taking care of extra patients.
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Very useful information. Thanks.
Since none of us know when/if we will need a living will, remember this. Our spouses may not be in good enough emotional or physical health to make these decisions. Our children or other family may need this form. Certainly, it would strengthen the position of the family if this is filled out and available to them. If they don't need it then they don't have to use it.
Blessings.
http://www.nrlc.org/euthanasia/willtolive/index.html is the link to the National Right To Life's Will to Live page. There are links to forms for each state.
My mom and I have sent for a CA form - Advanced Medical Directive. According to the CA Medical Assn - it is better than a living will.
I went to their website and ordered the forms $5/each and they are being mailed to us - and they include instructions on how to fill it out and how copies should be distributed.
Indiana treats feeding tubes differently than machines. There is a separate line and a separate set of boxes to check.
The problem (not with the post, with the original article) is that it assumes I (and all Californians) am too stupid to see all the blank lines on the form to write in my exact wishes. Also, just before the quoted portion of the form, it reads: If you fill out this part of the form, you may strike any wording you do not want.
Campaign for Children and Families is not being fully truthful here.