Living Wills
Mar. 30th, 2005 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakI'm working on getting a living will made up, but it is a lot of work. The stupid Florida thing made me think I should do this. I think I need the full on durable power attorney for health care because I'm unsure that my parents would accept my views.
I believe in the pretty standard things that I don't want to be subjected to life sustaining procedures like ventilators or feeding tubes only to die of something else a few months later. Also I want pain relief even if it might incidentally shorten my life should I be terminally ill.
All that is pretty usual. Where I probably depart from many people's views is that if there is likely that I've been substantially mentally impaired by and accident or illness I do not want to have life saving procedures done. I suspect that my parents would view that as wrong that I ought to bear up under such a burden and grow from it or some such nonsense. Maybe I'm wrong and I'll ask, but that's what I think.
And given the nature of comas I don't want to be sustained if I am in one for more than a week since that will mean I'm likely to come out brain damaged (despite the Hollywood version of comas where its all okay even after years).
I believe in the pretty standard things that I don't want to be subjected to life sustaining procedures like ventilators or feeding tubes only to die of something else a few months later. Also I want pain relief even if it might incidentally shorten my life should I be terminally ill.
All that is pretty usual. Where I probably depart from many people's views is that if there is likely that I've been substantially mentally impaired by and accident or illness I do not want to have life saving procedures done. I suspect that my parents would view that as wrong that I ought to bear up under such a burden and grow from it or some such nonsense. Maybe I'm wrong and I'll ask, but that's what I think.
And given the nature of comas I don't want to be sustained if I am in one for more than a week since that will mean I'm likely to come out brain damaged (despite the Hollywood version of comas where its all okay even after years).