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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-24-05 09:18 PM
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Living Will--Print and Sign
Be sure to check your state's requirements on witness requirements. You might need two witnesses, and perhaps notarization.

My Living Will

I, _________________________ (fill in the blank), being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means.

Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of peckerwood politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for a margarita, it should be presumed that I won't ever get better.

When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my child/spouse/SO and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day.

Under no circumstances shall the members of the Congress or the state legislature enact a special law to keep me on life-support machinery. It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own damn business, and pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of Americans who aren't in a permanent coma.

Under no circumstances shall any politicians butt into this case. I don't care how many fundamentalist votes they're trying to scrounge for their run for the presidency in 2008, it is my wish that they play politics with someone else's life and leave me alone to die in peace.

I couldn't care less if a hundred religious zealots send e-mails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me. I don't know these people, and I certainly haven't authorized them to preach and crusade on my behalf. They should mind their own business, too.

If any of my family goes against my wishes and turns my case into a political cause, I hereby promise to come back from the grave and make his or her existence a living hell.



_________________________________
Signature

_________________________________
Witness


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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-24-05 09:23 PM
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1. That's funny. The part about coming back from the grave...
...and making my family's existence a living hell. That's almost exactly what I told my entire family when we were gathered for dinner at a restaurant one night.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-24-05 09:24 PM
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2. EXCELLENT!
:rofl:
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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-24-05 09:29 PM
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3. printed and ready to go!...
Very well done there. Thank you.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-25-05 10:00 PM
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4. So are you at 1000 yet, Texastoast? n/t
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texastoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-26-05 10:17 AM
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5. I think this is 998
I'm trying to have a meaningful post for 1000. Or not.

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