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Originally Posted by Splash
I definitely think people should have the right to pull the plugs on themselves if they want to. I personally would never elect to. However, I think this should be in a written living will prior to the diagnosis/hospitalization of the ailment. It is difficult to make an unbiased decision of what you "really want" when you're in the hospital for months in terrible pain.
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Yeah, and I've got all of that spelled out in my living will. However, this is what I think would happen to me (if I really did become that ill). I could sit here and think, yeah, I could get though it, I'd have my family and get pain meds and I could be strong enough. But then I'd be in such a position later in life where I got sick/was paralyzed/was a vegetable, and I would think..... well, shit. I didn't think it'd be THIS bad. Nevermind, I changed my mind! Would that really be an "unbiased decision" of what I really wanted then? But yeah, I do agree with you, that it's a really fine line with being so fed up with the quality of life that you have versus the pain or whatever else actually making you not quite all there in the mind.
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