(December 27, 2014 at 9:41 pm)ManMachine Wrote: It seems to me the question at the heart of this is how happy or unhappy is he?I guess you did not really get the point. My buddy, before all this happened, would have been shocked, grieved, dismayed, pissed, ... (stick any synonym you like here) ... that his family would allow this to go on. If he is 'happy' right now, it is because he is no longer who he was and has not the capacity to evaluate good-bad, happy-unhappy any more. He has stated time and time again that if he cannot feed himself and wipe his own ass, then what is the point of going on.
@Min
Definitely a living will is desirable. Myself and my immediate family have a 'community' living will. One of the problems can be, if the family just says OK (yeah yeah, whatever) and, after the fact, they never divulge the will, the patient is in no position argue.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
