Actions upon your death....

[sgtcalle]

Apologies for the morbid thread for a Thursday morning, but inspired by a recent article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-38135063

In which apparently the wife of a biker had great difficulty in getting life support switched off for her husband who was in a vegetative state after being knocked off his bike...

Interested to see if any of you have penned a letter to be opened in the case of your being potatoed on the bike, which states your wishes with regard to being kept alive/allowed to die?
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[Holdawayt]

I'm not sure how to go about it if I'm honest but I have discussed it with my family. They know I don't want to be kept alive if I'm locked in, or just sat there on life support but I don't have anything in writing. Seems a bit morbid presenting the parents with a signed letter just in case I potato myself.

[grr666]

Something I expect every soldier does tbh. It's prudent, not morbid. Particularly as life insurance doesn't pay
out until you kark it. If I had kids to go with my wife then I'd probably write such a letter. One last act of provision
for your loved ones has to be better than skinting the family looking after a 15 stone spud.
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[UncleFester]

DNR is what you need to record in case of this.
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[Monkeywrenche...]

[Rogerborg]

Finally getting to collect on the life insurance.

[angryjonny]

[UncleFester]

Have you seen the damage that resuscitating does? If i rock in there with injuries so severe that i'm on the verge of it, you can let me croak over it thanks.

I certainly won't have an issue with it!!!
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[Kris]

Survived the war, taken out by a dizzy bint in a Micra...


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[owl]

[UncleFester]

[sgtcalle]

[t121anf]

Someone write a standard letter and share it for us all to fill in our own details.

[Rogerborg]

What gets me is this obsession that the State has with keeping potato-people alive. What's the merit? Once your brain is gone, you're no longer you, and arguably no longer a human being. You're just monkey-shaped meat.

Yes, I include those who have lost their marbles gradually as well as suddenly, or who never possessed them to begin with.

At the point where I cannot understand or answer the question "Do you want to live?", then the answer is no, I do not. Game over. Opiate overdose, give anything usable to British taxpayers, wrap the remaining meat in some newspapers, and roll it in a ditch.

Hmm, I probably should write this down.

Maybe I just did. You all witnessed it.

Totes serious about the British taxpayers bit, as well.
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[UncleFester]

And that opens the topic nicely.

Get your affairs in order NOW. If you let the state take care of it on your behalf because you failed to, you can be sure the state will come out if it rather better off than those you failed to name who are left behind.
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[angryjonny]

[Monkeywrenche...]

[UncleFester]

[owl]

[M.C]

[UncleFester]

The problem is that once life is viable ( and that's not a life ) law and ethics say that must be maintaibed. So it's all fine if you recuscitate and recover to a nice place. It's when or if you don't.

I've already made my choice.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

Not only do I want to be switched off if I'm potato, I want to be able to switch myself off.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38500873
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[Rogerborg]

[smegballs]

[Azoth]

It's heinous that people are forced to live in great pain and/or in a vegetative state. I don't agree that it's ethical, at all. There was a news item recently about a man in great pain who's going through the courts for his right to be allowed to die (i.e. for his medical aid and sustenance to be discontinued). If the law allowed it, I would have no compunction at all against paying him a visit with a knife. It would be an act of great mercy or charity. The coup de grace, the misericorde.. I wouldn't waste a minute getting over there, or talking about it, and I wouldn't charge anyone a penny. But, as it stands, that would be murder. The law is patently, absurdly regressive on such matters. Perhaps this has happened partly because of the diminution in importance of judge-made case law as part of the legal system. In the 18th and 19th centuries, they wouldn't have shied from discussing the ethical dimensions of the issue, using principles of logic and reason, in the higher courts. But now, judges are less competent, more politically minded and completely spineless.
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