RandomKoolzip
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Wed Mar-02-05 12:21 AM
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Edited on Wed Mar-02-05 12:22 AM by RandomKoolzip
My father used to say to me, when I was little, that if he was ever in a critical state of health and was hooked up to a life support machine, or some such thing, that he would want one of his brood to pull the plug. "Life," he would say, "Is about dignity. I would choose quality over quantity."
Then there came a time when my father was critically ill with late-stage cirrhosis of the liver, and the doctors gave him mere months to live....at which point he had completely reversed his position on this subject. At the end, he was literally begging, with tears in his eyes, to prolong his life as much as we could. "Please, please, keep me alive" were some of the last words I heard him speak.
The message here is that we just don't know, unless we are actually met with such a situation first hand, what we want.
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