I've already had long conversations with my hubby about this one, and I've got an appointment with an attorney to carve it in stone.
I absolutely, positively, do not ever want to be kept alive artificially. I'm ok with emergency CPR, and I'm ok with "heroic" measures to save my life, but if that life has to afterwards be maintained by a machine, I don't want any part of it.
I'm thinking very seriously of having a close friend, one whom I trust implicitly, to be the one who administers my living will... While I trust my husband, with my life and my death, I also know that times like these can sometimes cause the most even-keeled person to act selfishly in a moment of panic, rather than selflessly in the interests of the person whose life is at stake.
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~Sinclair Lewis
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