Comments on: Living Will http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/ America's favorite blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:53:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 by: Geeky Ramblings http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8584 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8584 <strong>Living Will</strong> Adam has the right idea here, although he puts a distinctly humorous slant on it. I’m going to be a bit more serious about it. Let’s make it perfectly clear here … I David Michael Gibbs, being of sound mind and body (more or less)... Living Will

Adam has the right idea here, although he puts a distinctly humorous slant on it.
I’m going to be a bit more serious about it.
Let’s make it perfectly clear here …
I David Michael Gibbs, being of sound mind and body (more or less)…

]]> by: Blogula Rasa http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8585 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8585 <strong>Living Will</strong> Inspired by satirist Adam Felber's Living Will, myDavid posted the following: Adam has the right idea here, although he puts a distinctly humorous slant on it. I'm going to be a bit more serious about it. Let's make it perfectly... Living Will

Inspired by satirist Adam Felber’s Living Will, myDavid posted the following: Adam has the right idea here, although he puts a distinctly humorous slant on it. I’m going to be a bit more serious about it. Let’s make it perfectly…

]]> by: John Singleton http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8583 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8583 <b>Steve</b> wrote on March 21, 2005, at 04:52 PM: <blockquote><i>I believe it was Jeb Bush who dismissed critics of the Florida electric chair, which worked so poorly that the condemned were sometimes literally fried to death and on at least on occasion actually caught fire, by saying something to the effect that if they didn't want the punishment they shouldn't do the crime.</i></blockquote> To complete the irony: one of the men who caught fire, Jesse Tafero, later turned out <b>not</b> to have done the crime. It was two years too late for him, but at least his wife Sonia "Sunny" Jacobs (who had also been sentenced to death) could be, and was, released. <a href="http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=15248">See _Joe_Conason's_comment_ on the Tafero case.</a> Steve wrote on March 21, 2005, at 04:52 PM:

I believe it was Jeb Bush who dismissed critics of the Florida electric chair, which worked so poorly that the condemned were sometimes literally fried to death and on at least on occasion actually caught fire, by saying something to the effect that if they didn’t want the punishment they shouldn’t do the crime.

To complete the irony: one of the men who caught fire, Jesse Tafero, later turned out not to have done the crime.

It was two years too late for him, but at least his wife Sonia “Sunny” Jacobs (who had also been sentenced to death) could be, and was, released.

See _Joe_Conason’s_comment_ on the Tafero case.

]]> by: hedera http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8580 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8580 Harold, congratulations on your uncle's recovery, that's good news. Harold, congratulations on your uncle’s recovery, that’s good news.

]]> by: Mike Z http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8581 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8581 Yes, glad to hear that things are looking better for your uncle, Harold. Hope he holds up! Yes, glad to hear that things are looking better for your uncle, Harold. Hope he holds up!

]]> by: Kara http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8582 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8582 There are so many amazing statements in this coversation. I want to copy them, print them, and hand them to the people in my office who thing Terry Shiavo should have been kept alive for another 45 years. Unfortunately, all this logic, all this good common sense, and this humane and ethical thought is lost on those people. They aren't listening. They won't listen. And it terrifies me that despite the grave that the Republicans are digging for themselves right now, our country would rather lie in it with them than elect a liberal. How can so many people be so brainwashed? There are so many amazing statements in this coversation. I want to copy them, print them, and hand them to the people in my office who thing Terry Shiavo should have been kept alive for another 45 years. Unfortunately, all this logic, all this good common sense, and this humane and ethical thought is lost on those people. They aren’t listening. They won’t listen. And it terrifies me that despite the grave that the Republicans are digging for themselves right now, our country would rather lie in it with them than elect a liberal. How can so many people be so brainwashed?

]]> by: Harold http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8579 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8579 By the way, just a quick follow-up: my uncle is off the ventilator (referred to as a "respirator" in my previous comment) as of yesterday and is actually doing a lot better. Whether this is a reprieve of days, or weeks, or months, we don't know, but I think he has learned the importance of having a Living Will. (He doesn't have one right now, so his wife and his doctor were kinda just playing it by ear.) By the way, just a quick follow-up: my uncle is off the ventilator (referred to as a “respirator” in my previous comment) as of yesterday and is actually doing a lot better. Whether this is a reprieve of days, or weeks, or months, we don’t know, but I think he has learned the importance of having a Living Will. (He doesn’t have one right now, so his wife and his doctor were kinda just playing it by ear.)

]]> by: Matt http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8577 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8577 Don't just get a "living will" but appoint someone to make health care decisions if you're incapacitated. Don’t just get a “living will” but appoint someone to make health care decisions if you’re incapacitated.

]]> by: PC Pete http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8578 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8578 Well, looks like it's a moot point now that all the appeals have been exhausted (not to mention the news media). The sound bites we've been getting from the family side of things is all "Human" vs. "Vulcan". Oh well, life's a bitch, then you (eventually) die. We don't seem to have the legal underpinnings Down Under to make "living wills". But Fran (She Who Must Be Obeyed) and I have just finished adding codicils to our wills in the event that we pop our clogs but not completely. Anyway, by the time our organs are donated the way we want them, it'll take more than a feeding tube to keep this meat puppet grimacing. (Oh what a feeling!) Well, looks like it’s a moot point now that all the appeals have been exhausted (not to mention the news media). The sound bites we’ve been getting from the family side of things is all “Human” vs. “Vulcan”. Oh well, life’s a bitch, then you (eventually) die.
We don’t seem to have the legal underpinnings Down Under to make “living wills”. But Fran (She Who Must Be Obeyed) and I have just finished adding codicils to our wills in the event that we pop our clogs but not completely. Anyway, by the time our organs are donated the way we want them, it’ll take more than a feeding tube to keep this meat puppet grimacing. (Oh what a feeling!)

]]> by: Jerry http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8574 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://fanaticalapathy.com/2005/03/21/living-will/#comment-8574 And BTW, if we have enough compassion to give our pets an easy way out of this world, why does she have to be starved to death, or anyone who is terminal have to suffer through the last stages of life? And why, if they choose to go out naturally, do we deny heroin to ease their suffering? Just a couple thoughts. And BTW, if we have enough compassion to give our pets an easy way out of this world, why does she have to be starved to death, or anyone who is terminal have to suffer through the last stages of life? And why, if they choose to go out naturally, do we deny heroin to ease their suffering? Just a couple thoughts.

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