Living Will and loss of control


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By patrick on Friday, April 1, 2005 - 02:54 pm:

    These people are out of control.


    Some perspective for Mr. Delay.


    The Living Will

    Living will is the best revenge
    By ROBERT FRIEDMAN, Perspective Editor
    Published March 27, 2005

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Like many of you, I have been compelled by recent
    events to prepare a
    more detailed advance directive dealing with
    end-of-life issues. Here's
    what mine says:

    * In the event I lapse into a persistent vegetative
    state, I want
    medical authorities to resort to extraordinary means
    to prolong my
    hellish semiexistence. Fifteen years wouldn't be
    long enough for me.

    * I want my wife and my parents to compound their
    misery by engaging in
    a bitter and protracted feud that depletes their
    emotions and their
    bank accounts.

    * I want my wife to ruin the rest of her life by
    maintaining an
    interminable vigil at my bedside. I'd be really
    jealous if she waited
    less than a decade to start dating again or
    otherwise rebuilding a
    semblance of a normal life.

    * I want my case to be turned into a circus by
    losers and crackpots
    from around the country who hope to bring meaning to
    their empty lives
    by investing the same transient emotion in me that
    they once reserved
    for Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy and that little girl
    who got stuck in a
    well.

    * I want those crackpots to spread vicious lies
    about my wife.

    * I want to be placed in a hospice where protesters
    can gather to bring
    further grief and disruption to the lives of dozens
    of dying patients
    and families whose stories are sadder than my own.

    * I want the people who attach themselves to my case
    because of their
    deep devotion to the sanctity of life to make death
    threats against any
    judges, elected officials or health care
    professionals who disagree
    with them.

    * I want the medical geniuses and philosopher kings
    who populate the
    Florida Legislature to ignore me for more than a
    decade and then turn
    my case into a forum for weeks of politically
    calculated bloviation.

    * I want total strangers - oily politicians, maudlin
    news anchors,
    ersatz friars and all other hangers-on - to start
    calling me "Bobby,"
    as if they had known me since childhood.

    * I'm not insisting on this as part of my directive,
    but it would be
    nice if Congress passed a "Bobby's Law" that applied
    only to me and
    ignored the medical needs of tens of millions of
    other Americans
    without adequate health coverage.

    * Even if the "Bobby's Law" idea doesn't work out, I
    want Congress -
    especially all those self-described conservatives
    who claim to believe
    in "less government and more freedom" - to trample
    on the decisions of
    doctors, judges and other experts who actually know
    something about my
    case. And I want members of Congress to launch into
    an extended debate
    that gives them another excuse to avoid pesky issues
    such as national
    security and the economy.

    * In particular, I want House Majority Leader Tom
    DeLay to use my case
    as an opportunity to divert the country's attention
    from the mounting
    political and legal troubles stemming from his slimy
    misbehavior.

    * And I want Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist to
    make a mockery of his
    Harvard medical degree by misrepresenting the
    details of my case in
    ways that might give a boost to his 2008
    presidential campaign.

    * I want Frist and the rest of the world to judge my
    medical condition
    on the basis of a snippet of dated and demeaning
    videotape that should
    have remained private.

    * Because I think I would retain my sense of humor
    even in a persistent
    vegetative state, I'd want President Bush - the same
    guy who publicly
    mocked Karla Faye Tucker when signing off on her
    death warrant as
    governor of Texas - to claim he was intervening in
    my case because it
    is always best "to err on the side of life."

    * I want the state Department of Children and
    Families to step in at
    the last moment to take responsibility for my
    well-being, because
    nothing bad could ever happen to anyone under DCF's
    care.

    * And because Gov. Jeb Bush is the smartest and most
    righteous human
    being on the face of the Earth, I want any and all
    of the
    aforementioned directives to be disregarded if the
    governor happens to
    disagree with them. If he says he knows what's best
    for me, I won't be
    in any position to argue.

    Robert Friedman is editor of Perspective. He can be
    reached at
    friedman@sptimes.com





By Rowlfe on Friday, April 1, 2005 - 10:42 pm:

    didnt that fucker sit quiet while one of his own family members was let die?


By semillama on Saturday, April 2, 2005 - 04:53 pm:

    if by "that fucker" you mean Delay, then yes, and it was his father.


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