[Silver]

And so I'm finally getting off my ass and making up a living will. The last thing I want is some jackass congressman trying to get my brain dead body to Washington to testify.

Can you imagine the transcript?

Congressman-Mr Silver, glad you could be here today. How are you.

Silver-(Drooling)

Congressman-Mr Silver, what are your thoughts on assisted suicide?

Silver-(More drooling. Nurse wipes mouth. Drool continues.)


Has anyone done a living will? I'll do some googling, but I'd like to not have to pay my lawyer to do something like this.

 

[ummbikes]

They have to be signed by witnesses. No need for a lawyer I would think.

 

[$tinkle]

you do have a living will: your voter registration ID

 

[Silver]

you do have a living will: your voter registration ID

Don't have one. How would that work, anyways?

 

[Westy]

And so I'm finally getting off my ass and making up a living will. The last thing I want is some jackass congressman trying to get my brain dead body to Washington to testify.

Can you imagine the transcript?

Congressman-Mr Silver, glad you could be here today. How are you.

Silver-(Drooling)

Congressman-Mr Silver, what are your thoughts on assisted suicide?

Silver-(More drooling. Nurse wipes mouth. Drool continues.)


Has anyone done a living will? I'll do some googling, but I'd like to not have to pay my lawyer to do something like this.

Don't forget to show congress the respect they deserve by crapping yourself a few times during the hearing.

I definately need to make a living will. I just realised last week I still have a DNR order tacked up on my spare bedroom door from when my mother was sick.

 

[$tinkle]

Don't have one. How would that work, anyways?

postpartum abortion on demand, or something or other

 

[Silver]

postpartum abortion on demand, or something or other

I would have thought Republicans would be all for removing the feeding tube. You're keeping poor Terry from being with Jesus, you know.

 

[$tinkle]

Don't forget to show congress the respect they deserve by crapping yourself a few times during the hearing.

"sen byrd? is that you?"

I just realised last week I still have a DNR order tacked up on my spare bedroom door from when my mother was sick.

where do you keep a spare bedroom door?

 

[$tinkle]

I would have thought Republicans would be all for removing the feeding tube. You're keeping poor Terry from being with Jesus, you know.

that's friggin glenn beck & all his mormon grandstanding, spaceba balshoi

 

[$tinkle]

I would have thought Republicans would be all for removing the feeding tube. You're keeping poor Terry from being with Jesus, you know.

reagan's ex-speechwriter sez terry will reach out of the grave to de-throne republicans

 

[Silver]

reagan's ex-speechwriter sez terry will reach out of the grave to de-throne republicans

I'm losing track now...it's confusing to be a Republican these days.

Let's say a judge issues an injunction to put the feeding tube back in. Is he an activist judge, like the one that said those negroes get to go to the same school as my little Buffy? Or is he a hero?

I'm also confused over the government sticking it's nose into people's lives. I thought Republicans were against that? I'm sure once they figure out the steroid thing in baseball, they'll have time to come back to this one...

 

[Changleen]

I would have thought Republicans would be all for removing the feeding tube. You're keeping poor Terry from being with Jesus, you know.

You spelt Jeebus wrong.

 

[Westy]

Any one else find it Ironic that the political party that has less of a problem marching off thousands of healthy american soldiers to get killed and maimed will fight to keep a braindead vegetable alive?

Fack that sounded like Changlean.

Who they hell is paying her hospital bills anyway. I'm surprised the insurance lobby hasn't gotten them to yank the tube.

 

[Silver]

I still can't figure out the logic that says removing all the tubes is ok, because then that way nature takes care of it instead of the doctor being involved.

That's another thing going into my living will...I want a Courtney Love sized dosage of morphine shot into my IV. Starving to death is for kids in Africa, not Americans.

 

[Changleen]

When you've done your will, post it on here. I wanna see the gory details.

 

[Changleen]

Oh, and: http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11965-4211660,00.html

Florida Woman's Feeding Tube Removed

Reuters
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Reuters
19/03/2005
Robert Green
Doctors have removed the feeding tube that has kept a brain-damaged Florida woman alive for 15 years after US. lawmakers tried to prolong her life by subpoenaing her to appear before Congress.

 

[Silver]

When you've done your will, post it on here. I wanna see the gory details.

I don't know about that...I think it's going to turn into a Hunter S. Thomson style rant, and I'll notarize the ****er myself...it could get ugly

 

[Changleen]

I don't know about that...I think it's going to turn into a Hunter S. Thomson style rant, and I'll notarize the ****er myself...it could get ugly

Post it, post it! :heart:

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

wait..

when i first heard the story, i just thought she should be disconnected... in fact if i was her, i would prefer that...

BUT... then i read on yahoo news today.. that she "breaths on her own", and that the only thing keeping her alive is the feeding tube... and that death should take about 2 weeks...

am usually for unplugging people from the breather or stuff like that (since those supply functions usually performs by the person itself)... and euthanasia..
but i think a "feeding tube" is kinda different....
and no different than say, an old fart who needs a nurse to cook and feed him with a spoon or an iv....

starving somebody to death for 2 weeks.. regardless they feel it or not, or conscious or not, or likely to regain consciousness or not... i dont know... is kinda cruel in my mind.....

 

[Silver]

Post it, post it! :heart:

I'm reading over these forms: http://www.partnershipforcaring.org/HomePage/index.html

I figure this is something to be fairly serious about. Nothing too exciting...

 

[$tinkle]

I'm losing track now...it's confusing to be a Republican these days.

Let's say a judge issues an injunction to put the feeding tube back in. Is he an activist judge, like the one that said those negroes get to go to the same school as my little Buffy? Or is he a hero?

I'm also confused over the government sticking it's nose into people's lives. I thought Republicans were against that? I'm sure once they figure out the steroid thing in baseball, they'll have time to come back to this one...

it's confusing when you cannot tell twix legislating from the bench (overturning what the mainstream voted into law, f'rinstance), and interpreting the law at the inconvenience of some stuffy white people.

in this case, as much as it may pain me to admit, to order the tube stuck back in sure seems like judicial activism.

the whole steroid thing is nothing more than junior congressional grandstanding; they could all use a hot cup of stfu

what fork & wheels do you have on your bullit?

 

[Silver]

it's confusing when you cannot tell twix legislating from the bench (overturning what the mainstream voted into law, f'rinstance), and interpreting the law at the inconvenience of some stuffy white people.

in this case, as much as it may pain me to admit, to order the tube stuck back in sure seems like judicial activism.

the whole steroid thing is nothing more than junior congressional grandstanding; they could all use a hot cup of stfu

what fork & wheels do you have on your bullit?

D729 up front, Rhyno-Lite XL on the back (there was a Rhyno-Lite on the front as well until I cased a drop...) and I'm running a Sherman Slider SPV right now. I used to have a Z1 up front, the bike rides much more balanced with the Sherman, and it's only an extra pound. Hope Bulbs for hubs.

Anyways, I don't agree with the order to pull the tube. They shouldn't let her starve to death. There lies the entire reason for me getting off my ass and doing this...

 

[ALEXIS_DH]

Anyways, I don't agree with the order to pull the tube. They shouldn't let her starve to death. There lies the entire reason for me getting off my ass and doing this...

totally true. that is a way too gruesome way to die.

is euthanasia legal in florida???

that is kinda a legal loophole... killing somebody by inanition is no worse than just shooting them in the face.... in fact a shot in the face would be more "humanitary"...

 

[Changleen]

D729 up front, Rhyno-Lite XL on the back (there was a Rhyno-Lite on the front as well until I cased a drop...) and I'm running a Sherman Slider SPV right now. I used to have a Z1 up front, the bike rides much more balanced with the Sherman, and it's only an extra pound. Hope Bulbs for hubs.

Hey hey hey, let's keep that 'mountain bike' **** out of the political debate forum eh?

j/k

Do you really like a SPV on the front of your bike? I know a lot of people who've had that set up and gone back to a 'regular' front shock. When I test rode it, it felt really weird to me too.

 

[H8R]

Living will:

http://www.legacywriter.com/livingwill_home.html

$19.95 to fill it out and download the form. Supposedly valid in all 50 states.

 

[Silver]

Hey hey hey, let's keep that 'mountain bike' **** out of the political debate forum eh?

j/k

Do you really like a SPV on the front of your bike? I know a lot of people who've had that set up and gone back to a 'regular' front shock. When I test rode it, it felt really weird to me too.

It feels weird until you are moving. Then it kind of disappears underneath you, and you don't notice it. I was a skier before I rode mountain bikes, and it's sort of like the old GS racing skis that were cinder blocks until you got up to speed. I'm not a rider who looks for air though, so that might color my opinion.

It sure does bob less than a 5 inch Z1 on short out of the saddle climbs. That's always kind of cool.

 

[reflux]

Any one else find it Ironic that the political party that has less of a problem marching off thousands of healthy american soldiers to get killed and maimed will fight to keep a braindead vegetable alive?

And when I take into account, to quote the White House, Bush's effort to create a "culture of life," I'm even more confused. It's a good thing we don't consider the wildlife in Alaska as part of this "culture" or we might have a philosophical problem.