Do you have a Living Will? Do your loved ones know if you want to be kept alive by machines or allowed to pass on when the times comes? Do you know what you want when that times comes?

Yes ;)
Stuff goes to Family and my Son ;)
NO MACHINES for Me Please ;)

I don't have a Will, they don't know & I'm not sure. I guess I need to do some thinking on that.

The problem with a living will, and the reason I haven't done one, is that it tends to be black and white and life rarely is that cut and dried. I have a child to raise. If being on a respirator for a few days would give me a good chance to recover and raise my child, I'd want that. But I would not want to be on a machine for years, months or even weeks if the chances I'd recover were small. The material on living wills that I've seen doesn't give you the chance to draw those distinctions. My husband knows what I want, but I'm afraid to put it in writing for fear they wouldn't try their best to help me recover for the sake of my child.

I have both types of will, a living will, that specifies conditions upon which the plug is to be pulled, along with organ donation, medical science study - thus if I am brain dead they (medical science) are allow to keep by body alive for up to a month in order to use my organs. This means they can take a kidney or a lung, keep the body going until an organ that once removed results in death.

This is somewhat better than an organ donors card which is used only once ;-). This allows the medical people to have some time to play with my organs and more carefully spread the parts around. Things like eyes can be removed and the body kept going until the heart is needed. Since I am AB- (fairly rare blood type) they are also allowed to siphon off blood for a month.

There is even a way around the month limit - if a person who needs the part is found but can not undergo surgery for 6 weeks, then an additional 2 weeks is added.

I had it all drawn up by the legal professionals who made it pretty expansive that allows a good deal of flexibility but disallows perpetual life support for no other reason than to keep the body alive.

I also have the Last Will, that specifies who gets what, where the remains will go, and how to spend the insurance monies.

me and my mum have both agreed that being keep alive by machines is not life but we have not but it into writing.