This one must have surfaced sometime last year, during the Schiavo
fracas, but I can't remember seeing it before. The text needs to be
tightened up some, though, to get rid of the loophole created by the
phrase "reasonable amount of time"; what's reasonable to one person
isn't, necessarily, to another... And the joke, while funny, has a dark
side to it...
There've been reports of plugs pulled, without any hullaballoo or
political intervention (and without a living will or even waiting for
the family to arrive from another country to make the decision), simply
on the basis of "other considerations" (uninsured black immigrant; who
cares?) . And there's a little girl in a Massachusetts hospital, whose
plug was almost pulled (after months, not years), but who began to
recover some brain activity just in time to stop the execution...
From: L.M.
I, __________________________, being of sound mind and body, do not
wish
to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no
circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians
who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it or
lawyers/doctors interested in simply running up the bills. If a
reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of
the following:
______a Bloody Mary
______a Margarita
______a Scotch
______a Martini
______a Vodka and Tonic
______a Steak
______Lobster or crab legs
______The remote control
______a Bowl of ice cream
___ ___The sports page (men) or society page (women)
______Chocolate
______Sex
it should be presumed that I won't ever get better.
When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my appointed
person and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and
call it a day.
Signature: ___________________________
Date: ___________________________
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Tamara P Duvall http://t-n-lace.net/
Lexington, Virginia, USA (Formerly of Warsaw, Poland)
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