Do you have a "living" will?

Yes. I just got mine made. I highly recommend so you can spare your family from the stress and anxiety. Here are some standard living wills organized by state http://www.paperwell.com/docs...

Good luck and god bless, everybody.

Thank you for that comment and the link. I hope someone can use it.

Yes, and an organ donor card..

Yes, another thing that is important. I have one of those too, but I think my organs are gettiing too ancient to be of any use to anyone. :)

But maybe they will be ancient too, and need ancient replacement parts.....LOL

yes

Not yet, but I plan on having one. I do not want to live in vegetative state. I would rather have my family pull the plug.

Don't delay for too long. There are no guarantees of how much time we have.

No, I have discussed this all with my family and they will make the decisions - I prefer they decide rather than nurses or doctors

A living will does not mean your family can not make end of life decisions for you. In fact most forms allow for that to be included. Depending on how large your family is, it could be difficult for all of them to agree unless you have left some concrete sign of your wishes. As a nurse I have seen some heartbreaking situations in which a terminally ill person in terrible pain was resuscitated because one family member would not agree to a DNR order, and the hospital staff had no choice. You may want to think this over a bit and reconsider at least a very basic document.

I worked in a hospital while I was in college - I know what they are. I would never be a DNR, I value life and know what they mean. I worked on step down from ICU - heart patients. One surgeon came on the floor to do pre-op visit, He looked at the living will and then asked the patient if he wanted to cancel the open heart in the morning. The patient said no, why. He said, and I quote: " you have a DNR order signed and I do not operate on patients that do not care if they live or die. This DNR means that I cannot save you if you fade on the table. Now you tell me, do you want the DNR or the surgery." Most people think DNR means something different than it actually means - as you know it means, Do Not Resuscitate or more correctly, let them die.

I have one son and one husband; I am not concerned about any room full of relatives - they both know my wishes., they are both wise and have great integrity.