absolutely

I have a living will not to be placed on life support so no plug required.

The next time I am hospitalized for anything, I am ordering a DNR (do not resuscitate).

No, just the opposite. I'm serious. I want to live!! UNLESS it's been over 4 years and/or it places my family under severe financial strain/distress. My sister and I are each other's medical power of attorney's (it's legal and everything) because we both know we will follow each other's instructions to the letter. my Mother would just do whatever the hell she wanted regardless of our wishes. Now, here's the stickler: my parents DO NOT know that should something happen, legally they are out of the loop. So lets pray nothing ever DOES happen, because they WILL SHIT A BRICK when they find out they aren't in charge!

Don't put the plug in to start with! the only reason I want my life artificially extended is for the purpose of organ harvesting!

Shit no. I want them to put as many tubes in me as they can. I don't even care what the tube does; if you got a tube, stick it in me somewhere. I don't care if my hospital bills are draining my family's money, keep me alive, dammit.

I have completed both a living will and a durable power of attorney. The living will spells out the conditions under which I would want my life to be preserved and the conditions under which I would not want to be on life support. However, a living will cannot possibly anticipate every potential situation, so I gave power of attorney to someone who understands my values and will act accordingly.

my family knows that I do not wish to live on machines. I have a living will which also states that. If need be I will sign a DNR. living on machines is not a life. I wish to die with dignity.

Mine know that I do not want to be on a respirator! They will have the plugged if I am on one.

being a former surgery tech, yes indeed I have. I have seen what people on life support go through and in my opinion that state of being and quality of life are not how I would want to go living. I think most people probably feel this way but sadly people that remain on life support are often forced to stay on it because family cannot accept their deaths and do not want to let go so they do not allow the hospitals to pull the plug. Not to ramble but when I was a tech a 4 yr old boy came into the ER then the OR as a result of a car accident. He had been standing in the front seat of the car when the mother wrecked and the child was ejected 30 feet out the windshield and from the car. When the child came in he died 2 times on the table, the doctor finally stabalized the kid but he was brain dead basically. The doctor told the mother this and asked why the kid did not have a seat belt on or was not in a restraint of some kind and the mother said "He doesn't like them". I was infuriated, "he doesn't like them?!" well I bet he liked a seatbelt more than being thrown through a windshield at 55 mph. The doctor told the mother that the child would never wake up and never be anything more than a vegetable and it would cost her a lot fo money to care for a child in this state. The mother, unable to deal with the fact that she had basically killed her kid refused to pull the plug. She would rather this child live as a vegetable, with tubes in every oriface, trapped in his own head, if he even had thoughts at all then to accept that fact that he died because of her negligence...truly disgusting....oh and to boot, she had a medical card so she didn't even care that the costs to pay for this child to remain this way were paid for by taxpayers and not herself.

no, that is too much responsibility to put onto someone else. Why would I ask a loved one to assist in killing me...no one who loves me would want to.

I've told my dad to, because he's the only one with the balls to go through with my wishes. It would be pointless to ask anything of the women in my family.

I dont have any living family members, I had papers drawn up as to what my wishes are should I end up being on a machine..I have a do not resucitate order as well. :)

No. i figure they are the ones who will have to live with their decision, not me (obviously) so they need to make their own decision concerning such things peace.

Yes but they started immediately and that really got me mad because I didn't even have a plug;)

i died once on 12-24-07 from a grand maul seizure (i didnt know it was possible) and i was pissed that they jumped my heart what is meant to be is meant to be

Wouldn't the question be "Would you tell your family..." I believe that a person has a right to die with dignity. Period. If someone has been diagnosed that they will not live or live a remotely normal life if allowed to linger, then I would most certainly suggest, perhaps, insist on 'pulling the plug.' Everything that ever lived most eventually die. Wouldn't you want the right, the opportunity to die under certain circumstances? No one can 'move on' while a loved one must remain in a vegetative state without real hope of ever living a normal or partially normal life again? This is the reason that people should expressly state their wishes in writing while of a sound mind and those wishes should be carried out as a matter of respect and out of love.

If I was on life support and would never live a normal life, off life support and was in a vegetative state, yes I would want them to pull the plug!

My wife and I have arranged for a living will which will keep us alive for a maximum of 6 months if and only if it is the opinion of 3 or more Doctors that there is a reasonable chance of coming out of a coma. If it is agreed that there is no or a minimal chance that we'd come back (for lack of a better way of putting it) then both of us want our asses terminated. We've even discussed moving to Washington or Oregon if either one of us develops a terminal disease so that when the time comes, that person can die with dignity on their own terms.

My wife knows that if there is ever a situation where I would need to be on life support to remain alive to unplug me and have all of my usable organs and tissues harvested to help others. I won't need them any more at that point anyway.

yes, I don't want to be a "vegetable" burden for my family.

I have a living will so there will not be a plug to pull; I don't want to just lay there in a blank condition.

Not yet, but I will.

yep. done deal.

i never want to be on life support

Yes,no waiting,no hesitation,I want OUT!!!

They have been instructed to hang me upside down from the ceiling like a Piñata and beat me in the head with sticks until my brains spill out on the floor.