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Squinch

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4. Your stated wishes do no good. You need to put it in writing, and you need to be very

Reply to bravenak (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 26, 2014, 06:23 PM

Jan 2014

careful about your instructions about any post-op care. Hospitals like to cook their numbers, so if you are dying after you have had a surgery, they will keep you alive by whatever means for a prescribed period so they can keep you off their surgical-failure stats.

Do the paperwork, or your husband and mother will not be allowed to follow your wishes.

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I'm glad he finally passed. I'm horrified at the thought he might have been kestrel91316 Jan 2014 #2

I feel the same way. bravenak Jan 2014 #3

Your stated wishes do no good. You need to put it in writing, and you need to be very Squinch Jan 2014 #4

WTF?!? Are you serious?? bravenak Jan 2014 #5

Totally serious. My mother had all the paperwork in place - living will, advanced directive, DNR - Squinch Jan 2014 #6

I see what they did there. bravenak Jan 2014 #7

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That's how I want to go out. I want a good exit at home with people who love me. bravenak Jan 2014 #9

. Squinch Jan 2014 #10

I like the way the Amish do it. They keep their elderly at home, living life to the fullest. kestrel91316 Jan 2014 #14

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I don't have a husband or mother. My sister knows full well how I feel and kestrel91316 Jan 2014 #13

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