Posted on 08/24/2009 10:57:19 AM PDT by nmh
This looks like a fairly standard explanation of the need to make your wishes known and how to make sure what you want to happen, happens.
I don’t see “pressure to pull the plug” in this. There are many different opinions about what people want done when they can’t speak for themselves, and I’ve seen what happens when people don’t write it down. I’ve seen terrible arguments between family members and unnecessary guilt. Informing people of how to make sure their wishes are followed is standard in hospitals and medical care. Why shouldn’t veterans be offered such information in the course of their health care? This isn’t new - the booklet was written President Bush.
“Mistakes” like the one below might become a common occurrance in VA Hospitals under the 0b0z0 thugs:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323431/posts
1200 vets mistakenly told they’re dying from ALS
Hotair.com ^ | August 24, 2009 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009 12:03:48 PM by rightwingintelligentsia
Just as the Obama administration tries to reassure people that the government can manage the health-care system more competently than what we have now, one of its single-payer systems demonstrates exactly what we can expect from ObamaCare. The VA mistakenly informed 1200 veterans that they have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, a 100% fatal condition. They blamed it on a “coding error” (via JWF):
At least 1,200 veterans across the country have been mistakenly told by the Veterans Administration that they suffer from a fatal neurological disease.
One of the leaders of a Gulf War veterans group says panicked veterans from Alabama, Florida, Kansas, North Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming have contacted the group about the error.
Denise Nichols, the vice president of the National Gulf War Resource Center, says the VA is blaming a coding error for the mistake.
The Obama credo for you is: doo-doo, horror, contemned
... pressuring veterans to sign a “living will” that authorizes doctors to terminate your life, if you are:
1) Living in a nursing home?
2) Being in a wheelchair?
3) Not able to “shake the blues?”
4) Ever heard anyone say, “If I’m a vegetable, pull the plug?”
5) No longer able to contribute to your family’s well-being?
6) Are you a severe financial burden to your family?
7) Do you cause severe emotional burden for your family?
PING
Thanks. I’ve told my family that if they start pulling plugs, I’m coming back to haunt them!
For example, the booklet asks veterans 7 questions pressuring veterans to sign a “living will” that authorizes doctors to terminate your life, if you are:
1) Having to constantly live in a high-stress environment with scores or armed security around you and your family?
2) Being in the chair where the buck supposedly stops?
3) Not able to “shake the blues because you've spent all your political capital in the first six months in office?”
4) Ever heard me say, “If I'm a one-termer, pull the plug?”
5) No longer able to redefine rich as $50,000 or more?
6) Are you a severe financial burden to the working families of America?
7) If my approval/disapproval goes below -14, do you wish to be resuscitated?
Now you’re talking!!
I second this:
Let’s see if we can develop a “Presidential Death Book”.
For example, the booklet asks veterans 7 questions pressuring veterans to sign a “living will” that authorizes doctors to terminate your life, if you are:
1) Having to constantly live in a high-stress environment with scores or armed security around you and your family?
2) Being in the chair where the buck supposedly stops?
3) Not able to “shake the blues because you’ve spent all your political capital in the first six months in office?”
4) Ever heard me say, “If I’m a one-termer, pull the plug?”
5) No longer able to redefine rich as $50,000 or more?
6) Are you a severe financial burden to the working families of America?
7) If my approval/disapproval goes below -14, do you wish to be resuscitated?
Seems like pressure to me....
Write down your wishes and make sure many people have it...or the plug may be pulled anyway
INCORRECT!!
Your perceptions are off
Find out who wrote this “death book”——>>>
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2323883/posts
Sorry, but I don’t believe a word out of Hannity’s mouth.
is most recent book, entitled Your Life, Your Choices, is an interactive workbook to help patients and family members with advance care planning. Your Life, Your Choices will be available to veterans through MyHealtheVet in 2007.[emphasis added]
So Perlman joined the center in 2000 and was there all through the President Bush's administration. I suggest you read the booklet - it's standard stuff.
I did read the booklet PDF. Downloaded it
Read the PDF yesterday....It’s been pulled from that site at least
I know it’s been 6 years but I just found out that a Vietnam Vet was given the Terri Schiavo treatment and am doing research for his wife.
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