Life is not precious to those who put financial matters ahead of conscience. My own sister, who is a Socialist, is angry with her MIL for not wanting to sign a DNR. I told her ‘maybe she’s not ready to go yet’. The MIL is ill but retains her mental faculties. I was speechless at my sister’s lack of conscience. But I am being redundant. My sister is a Socialist.
I’ve told my family I want to be a burden on them. I have my coma movies picked out.
I’ve told my family I want to be a burden on them. I have my coma movies picked out.
I agree with you, but from what I've read about this Baby Joseph case it seems that the Canadian doctors refused to do the tracheotomy because it isn't really an effective "treatment" for the child at all. I think the only purpose of it is to enable the child to breathe without a ventilator.
No one should be pressured into signing a DNR. It should come from their conscious will and of their own volition.
I have a friend who is 100 and will turn 101 in three months. She has a DNR but that only about as she years ago proclaimed that when death approaches, let it happen. She is done.
She has since lived an additional 8 years and apart from a broken hip and some minor health problems that required hospitalization, she living quite well, with blood pressure better than most over the age 40.
I hope she makes it to her 101st birthday just for the fun of it.