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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (154199)1/12/2011 8:53:30 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 540820
 
>>The implication of end of life counseling is that I can tell the doctors I choose not to go on a ventilator and prolong my suffering, but rather that I can choose to be kept comfortable, even, as my folks' Advanced Directives noted, I might smother, starve, or dehydrate by receiving only "comfort care". <<

To be completely clear, one could also decide that one did want to go on a ventilator, and to be kept alive at all costs. That is a choice one can make, and have written into an Advance Directive.



To: Wharf Rat who wrote (154199)1/12/2011 9:13:12 PM
From: d[-_-]b  Respond to of 540820
 
Yes - that's part - the other topics are what to expect with terminal illness and pain management. If the pain is not managed can lead to suicide as a way out - which, if informed, should be done with the utmost respect. My close friends father was on the local fire dept and saw a number of the results of suicide among the elderly.


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