IconoclasT wrote:
] Ensure you don't become another Terry Schiavo in case some
] biological tragedy besets you.
]
] I, _________________________ (fill in the blank), being of
] sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely
] by artificial means.
]
] Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of
] peckerwood politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology
] if their lives depended on it.
]
] If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up
] and ask for a cold beer, it should be presumed that I won't
] ever get better. When such a determination is reached, I
] hereby instruct my spouse, children and attending physicians
] to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day.
]
] Under no circumstances shall the members of the Legislature
] enact a special law to keep me on life-support machinery. It
] is my wish that these boneheads mind their own damn business,
] and pay attention instead to the health, education and future
] of the millions of Americans who aren't in a permanent coma.
]
] Under no circumstances shall any politician butt into this
] case. I don't care how many fundamentalist votes they're
] trying to scrounge for their run for the presidency in 2008,
] it is my wish that they play politics with someone else's life
] and leave me alone to die in peace.
]
] I couldn't care less if a hundred religious zealots send
] e-mails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me.
] I don't know these people, and I certainly haven't authorized
] them to preach and crusade on my behalf. They should mind
] their own business, too.
]
] If any of my family goes against my wishes and turns my case
] into a political cause, I hereby promise to come back from the
] grave and make his or her existence a living hell.
]
]
] Signed: ________________________________________

Iconoclast, why wait till then to get rid of yourself? Why not just pay me 20 bucks to put you out of your misery now?

RE: Living Will