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Do you have a living will?
I ask this as SO and I are on very different sides of the coin with the what ifs concerning what happens if something horrible should happen to the other one. I say no codes, pull the plug and just let me go should there be no chance of my living a productive life...donate my organs, if they can be and know that I was able to live a good happy life and maybe help someone else with what I have to leave behind.
His point of view is keep him alive at whatever means...for at least a year, don't donate anything I have have...I need to be intact. OK, that is what he chooses, and should (God forbid) I ever have to make such a decision, I will follow his wishes and hope that he can follow mine.
So yesterday, I am leaving the vet's office, (we have a very sick dog who has lived almot 14 years with cancer and NEEDS to be put down, but he just can't part with him yet...but that is a whole 'nuther thread) the girl behind the desk (who has known all of us for just about 14 years) says to me, "I really hope you have a living will. This must be so hard."
For the past 20 years SO and I have disagreed on MANY things, but for most things we have agreed to disagree and leave it at that. After leaving the vet's office yesterday, and many times throughout the week, I have struggled with how different our points of view are on this issue. Until our sick puppy it never really occured to me the importance of a living will.
So, with that being said, I strongly encourage you to make sure you have a living will and share your last wishes with more than one person. You just really never know how someone will react when it comes time to make some tough choices.
I ask this as SO and I are on very different sides of the coin with the what ifs concerning what happens if something horrible should happen to the other one. I say no codes, pull the plug and just let me go should there be no chance of my living a productive life...donate my organs, if they can be and know that I was able to live a good happy life and maybe help someone else with what I have to leave behind.
His point of view is keep him alive at whatever means...for at least a year, don't donate anything I have have...I need to be intact. OK, that is what he chooses, and should (God forbid) I ever have to make such a decision, I will follow his wishes and hope that he can follow mine.
So yesterday, I am leaving the vet's office, (we have a very sick dog who has lived almot 14 years with cancer and NEEDS to be put down, but he just can't part with him yet...but that is a whole 'nuther thread) the girl behind the desk (who has known all of us for just about 14 years) says to me, "I really hope you have a living will. This must be so hard."
For the past 20 years SO and I have disagreed on MANY things, but for most things we have agreed to disagree and leave it at that. After leaving the vet's office yesterday, and many times throughout the week, I have struggled with how different our points of view are on this issue. Until our sick puppy it never really occured to me the importance of a living will.
So, with that being said, I strongly encourage you to make sure you have a living will and share your last wishes with more than one person. You just really never know how someone will react when it comes time to make some tough choices.
