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Would you want your feeding tube removed ?

You are in a permenent vegetative state. Do yo want your feeding tune removed?

  • No, I am ok with being like this for 20 or more years

    Votes: 1 3.1%

  • Yes, a year is long enough. Take it out.

    Votes: 28 87.5%

  • I have no clue.

    Votes: 3 9.4%
  • Total voters
    32
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You collapsed and were found down, an unwitnessed cardiac arrest. It took paramedics 10 minutes to get there. They were able to obtain a pulse about 10 minutes later.

6 months passed no change, a full year passed you remain in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of awareness, let alone interaction. 3 highly regarded neurologists agree that there is no possibility of recovery.

You are now in a nursing home. Turned and your diaper is changed every 2 hours. You get your feedings through a tube.They do their best to prevent rashes and bedsores

Every so often you go back to the hospital for severe infections.Your family still comes by a few times a week..Their visits start with hope and frequently end in tears.

Would you accept being like this for the next 20 or 30 years?

Or would you like them to remove your feeding tube and allow you to pass away?

(poll should read feeding tube;) )
 
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If I had Obamacare let me lay there for 30 years
 
It's my body and so it's nobody else's business. I have already signed a document stating my wish to be kept alive as long as possible.
 
I have a living will. No feeding tube or other long term life support measures. I have had a great run. Would like to die with some dignity
 
No self awareness is the key for me. Pull the plug......pulling tune optional.. maybe 'When the Music's Over' by the Doors would be appropriate.
 
year2late said:
You collapsed and were found down, an unwitnessed cardiac arrest. It took paramedics 10 minutes to get there. They were able to obtain a pulse about 10 minutes later.

6 months passed no change, a full year passed you remain in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of awareness, let alone interaction. 3 highly regarded neurologists agree that there is no possibility of recovery.

You are now in a nursing home. Turned and your diaper is changed every 2 hours. You get your feedings through a tube.They do their best to prevent rashes and bedsores

Every so often you go back to the hospital for severe infections.Your family still comes by a few times a week..Their visits start with hope and frequently end in tears.

Would you accept being like this for the next 20 or 30 years?

Or would you like them to remove your feeding tube and allow you to pass away?

(poll should read feeding tube;) )
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If I'm ever in a vegetative state, I want an EEG or fMRI performed to search for signs of awareness. If that, combined with consultation from a neurologist or neurosurgeon, confirms that there's no significant chance of me ever recovering, then let me die right away. A year is far too long to wait.

I've had this discussion with my wife, my sister, and my parents and they all know my wishes on the subject. I intend to have the same discussion with my kids when they're old enough that they could be the ones making the decision.
 
Waddy said:
It's my body and so it's nobody else's business. I have already signed a document stating my wish to be kept alive as long as possible.
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I respect your decision.

Would not be mine.
 
In that scenario, being kept alive is clearly doing me no good. Just pull the plug and give my family some relief so they can move on.
 
I prefer quality over quantity...
 
My wife would not allow the tube in the first place per our mutual agreement.
 
molten_dragon said:
If I'm ever in a vegetative state, I want an EEG or fMRI performed to search for signs of awareness. If that, combined with consultation from a neurologist or neurosurgeon, confirms that there's no significant chance of me ever recovering, then let me die right away. A year is far too long to wait.

I've had this discussion with my wife, my sister, and my parents and they all know my wishes on the subject. I intend to have the same discussion with my kids when they're old enough that they could be the ones making the decision.
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With PVS, it can take a few months to "level out". Brain swelling and other factors can influence brain function. Clearly 12 months is ample time for anoxic injury. I was giving a long date to make people sure that it was permanent. Certainly 6 months is ample...even three.
 
I have been at that crossroads myself.

Believe me, when facing death up close and personal, the ONLY thing you want to do at that time is survive. It's instinctive.

But, it is understood among my family, (and I am about to put it into writing,) if the only thing keeping alive is feeding tubes and a breathing machine and I have no real chance of pulling through, I want them to pull the plug.

But what usually happens, they keep you alive long enough to suck away all your assets, all your government benefits, until there is no more money to be had, and then they slowly put you down. Much like an old dog.
 
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chuckiechan said:
I plan to live forever... so far, so good...
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Me too. And if I can't do that, I want to be a burden to family and friends, and especially the government.
 
I think most liberal would agree with removing the feeding tube because that person could no longer be able to vote or....this.... allowing dead people to vote for democrat so it wouldn't make any difference.:2wave:

I have a living will and it will not allow resuscitation.
 
RabidAlpaca said:
So somebody who doesn't want to die gets the medical treatment they need and want? Was that supposed to be an insult to the ACA?
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no, its just showing the typical selfishness and scumbaggery of right wingers.
 
gulfman said:
If I had Obamacare let me lay there for 30 years
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Thanks to John McCain you have that choice.

My choice isn’t listed. When I can no longer LIVE pull the plug and let me die as I’ve lived; with dignity.
 
I've already done the Living Will and Power of Attorney, Burial and Probate documents.

A "vegetative state" isn't my idea of living. It may be suitable for others of course, but not for this particular individual.
 
Irwin Corey said:
Thanks to John McCain you have that choice.

My choice isn’t listed. When I can no longer LIVE pull the plug and let me die as I’ve lived; with dignity.
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Red:
  • It seems you and I are of two minds. I am of the mind that:

  • There's nothing dignified about dying.
  • The dead don't care about dignity.
  • People say "such and such" will be the last thing they do. If "such and such" is anything other than dying, it won't be the last thing they do, so, if they're gonna do it at all, they had better do "it" before then.
 
Xelor said:
Red:
  • It seems you and I are of two minds. I am of the mind that:

  • There's nothing dignified about dying.
  • The dead don't care about dignity.
  • People say "such and such" will be the last thing they do. If "such and such" is anything other than dying, it won't be the last thing they do, so, if they're gonna do it at all, they had better do "it" before then.
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What I've seen of death is life doesn't give up easily. But a dear friend died two weeks ago and my brother in-law died this past weekend. Both were gravely ill and both died WITH DIGNITY. Dying you are most vulnerable, you can go out with dignity or a whimpering disgrace. They may not have been their MOST dignified but those two men faced death with DIGNITY. You can't know your second point to be true and your third is just nit-picking.
 
Irwin Corey said:
What I've seen of death is life doesn't give up easily. But a dear friend died two weeks ago and my brother in-law died this past weekend. Both were gravely ill and both died WITH DIGNITY. Dying you are most vulnerable, you can go out with dignity or a whimpering disgrace. They may not have been their MOST dignified but those two men faced death with DIGNITY. You can't know your second point to be true and your third is just nit-picking.
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My condolences.


As I said, you and I are of two minds on the matter of dying with dignity.
 
Xelor said:
My condolences.


As I said, you and I are of two minds on the matter of dying with dignity.
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Dying is not dignified, but it can be done with dignity.
 
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