11-01-2012, 03:29 PM
Thanks User. 
First and foremost if a person has a living will that should be followed. I can only imagine how hard it will be to make the call to discontinue life support when you don't want to let the person go, but their wish is not to be on life suport if there is no hope. Now who decides there is no hope? That's the hardest part of all. This season on Grey's Anatomy the doctor's were in a plane crash. One of them had these serious internal injuries but managed to get his living will done. It said if he goes into a coma and has to be on life support, pull the plug at 30 days. I guess he felt that if he didn't rally in those 30 days he never would. I would like something like that in my LW. I know I would never want to be on life support for some extended period of time if there was no hope. But that is always the question - how can we be 10000000% sure there is no hope?
First and foremost if a person has a living will that should be followed. I can only imagine how hard it will be to make the call to discontinue life support when you don't want to let the person go, but their wish is not to be on life suport if there is no hope. Now who decides there is no hope? That's the hardest part of all. This season on Grey's Anatomy the doctor's were in a plane crash. One of them had these serious internal injuries but managed to get his living will done. It said if he goes into a coma and has to be on life support, pull the plug at 30 days. I guess he felt that if he didn't rally in those 30 days he never would. I would like something like that in my LW. I know I would never want to be on life support for some extended period of time if there was no hope. But that is always the question - how can we be 10000000% sure there is no hope?
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