RE: Pulling the plug
September 2, 2011 at 5:01 am
(This post was last modified: September 2, 2011 at 5:03 am by Oldandeasilyconfused.)
(August 25, 2011 at 4:10 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Is there a big push to go on life support as a believer? Well, any bigger than a non-believer?
Not in this country. My 85 year old mum is a devout Catholic .
Mum has a living will, me and sis are the trustees. Mum has put it in writing that she will have no more operations,and that there are to be no heroic efforts to keep her alive,including life support. The church is fine with that.
My fury with believers is their smug and callous blocking of voluntary euthanasia legislation. I "get" the logic of the anti abortion thing.(but disagree) However, voluntary euthanasia is morally a totally different matter,and NONE OF THEIR FUCKING BUSINESS!
It gives me the absolute fucking tom tits that when (not 'if') I choose to leave I will have to do it alone,hit-or-miss, without comfort or support. I have no intention of dying by inches, over a decade,as my father did.
