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[urbpan]

I have much to say about the Terry Schiavo debacle, but I'm still not able to calmly discuss it. Suffice it to say, I think everyone (even, in fact, especially, young healthy people) should come up with a plan for dealing with extreme disability and death, and commit it to a legal document.

Much thanks to miz_geek for this link:
http://www.ostwald.hispeed.com/liz/images/AdvDirective.pdf

You should be allowed to die in the way that you want to.

Comments

[ms-cantrell.livejournal.com]

thanks for that link. i took care of all this a few years ago when my husband was having some serious health problems, but i printed up a copy of the form to give to a single mom friend of mine.

the schiavo case is apalling. i cannot even imagine what sort of people her parents must be, to drag this through the media and the courts this way.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

That is just awesome. Should I print out 2 copies then?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That's funny; I was going to print one out here!

Go ahead and print two out--they'll get smashed up in my bag. Do we need to bring them to a lawyer, or just keep them on file? Aleks is a notary (isn't Jo a notary too?) in case that's what we need.

I'd like to talk to my dad about it, too.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Yup, Jo had to be a notary b/c of her sherrif's admin job. I think we can give copies to our parents to cover our bases.

I will do that.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

I think it's more a matter of making sure someone could find it if the situation came up. So, if someone you trust (or whoever it is that would be called in an emergency) has a copy, you'd probably be ok. And I think the two witnesses are enough - you don't reallly need a notary. But I'm sure it couldn't hurt.

Philip, the lawyer who sent this out would be happy it's actually of use to someone.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

Well, since my sister is a notary and better not charge us for her notarization, it's no skin off our noses :)

Please thank Philip for me!

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

Any way I want to? Can it involved tigers and take a few people with me?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That sounds like the way I wanna go, too!

(That or a massive morphine overdose while I'm still in postcoital bliss).

[rwblackbird.livejournal.com]

I love the icon