Would you pull the plug?

I'd like to know if you guys were in a coma and life support was all that was keeping you a live would you want someone to pull the plug or would you want to keep on trying?

I personally would want the plug pulled. I'm scared of what's on the other side but I also wouldn't want to be around if I wasnt having a purpose.

After three months I would, I'd like to be given a reasonable period of time to show any signs of life.

Good topic by the way

That's why i have a living will i dont want to be on life support if that's the only thing keeping me alive etc.....

 

 

Clarice

Yep. I want the plug pulled. I should probably get a will wrote up so my family has to. I've told my parents if something ever happened to where I ended up in coma to give me 6 months max and pull the plug.

pull it!  pull it now!!

My FIL died this last Thanksgiving.  He had lived the last 4 yrs of his life in a nursing home not knowing who or where he was - before he had gotten so bad he was living with us and my husband always said he was sorry he didn't get his gun out give it to his dad and take him out to the desert cause he knows he wouldn't wan't to continue to live without any quality of life what so ever. 

We have a pact if we get that bad to just kill us.  Modern meds can keep you alive forever it seems, but just what is the quality of the life are you living and do you want to be basically a shell of a person for only God knows how long?? 

I do not want to be on life support and I do not want to live in a nursing home - I just pray that I have the presence of mind to end it if it looks like that is where I am heading.  I think mercy killing should be an option and available much like a living will.

I have both a will and a living will.  My daughters have to make the decision.  We have talked about this at length.  After a reasonable amount of time organs will be harvested and I will be in peace.

Everyone shoud have a serious talk about this with their families and have it in writing, because after all is said and done the doctors will try to do whatever they can.  I believer that there is a point when whatever they can do can hurt more then do good.

Definitely pull the plug. I'm a huge advocate of mercy killing.
I also wouldn't want to keep on living if I developed any kind of memory thing- ie. alzheimer's, dementia, etc.

If I ever get to the point where I can look at my best friend & have no idea who she is, I want to be done. That's not how I want everyone to remember me.

cause im young i dont really know what to say. If i was incapable i wouldn't like to be a burden and would want the plug pulled... But i also wouldn't like to make my familly sad by going. but in the hypothetical situation if i was in a vegitated state pull the plug. I'm atheist I dont believe in a God, but I do believe that someone or something takes us when its time, I do also believe i guess that who are we to decide? but I know for a fact I dont want to suffer so I guess that makes us the ones to decide. im a little half and half on the situation i guess. but it totally depends on the situation

Yes.  Death with dignity for me, please.

I'd want to just get it over with... please don't keep my shell hanging around any longer than necessary if I'm not there with it. Pull the plug, take any usable organs I have left, and give them to people who really need them.

Yep, pull my plug and harvest anything you want-organs, skin, bones, etc.  I won't need it and I think organ donation is a wonderful thing.

Take whatever functioning organs you can and pull the plug. 

pull it

Donate my body to science...hahaha I want to be one of those body works type things....that is so neat.....

either that or just cremate me after removing any viable organs...

Plug be gone. All you people who want to donate your organs, make sure you have your donor card filled out. My husband and I both did because we have different views on organ donation - I am adamantly 100% for it, he is equally as adamantly 100% against. We both admited that in the situation we would probably go with our own wishes in the event of something terrible happening because we both have such strong feelings about it. By filling out the donor cards, it allows us to take that decision back and takes the onus off the other at an already crappy time.

i agree, pull it after a certain amount of months (with no response), and take whatever organs they can use. i see how it could be painful for your family to have to make the decision to pull the plug, but i really think it would be equally as painful for your parents/brothers/sisters/etc to see you just lying there basically not even yourself anymore. what's the point of living if you're not even actually living? my philosophy on life is about living it to the fullest, and if i'm stuck in a bed on life support or in a nursing home not even truly knowing what is going on anymore, then i'm not really living it to the fullest. i can't live my life through a machine.

Give me at least 3-4 months MAX then pull the plug! Harvest whatever organs can be used to help someone else, cremate me and toss the ashes. No coffin, no urn, no headstone. However a kick ass party in my honor would be nice :)

( I would say just pull the plug immediately, but watching these dumb Grey's anatomy type shows where miracles happen and the people suddenly bounce back and out of their coma makes me think I may have a chance for a dramatic come back! LOL j/k)

My aunt recently went into a coma and has been up and down the progress i didnt take it into consideration really until someone said but yeah give me a little while to see how things might turn around but ultimately i wouldnt want to be a shell.

pull that plug ...let me gooo.

This is such a good question. Sorry I'm late to the thread.  Pull the plug when the family is ready, but make sure everyone gets time to say goodbye, come to terms with my death, and give my organs away.   I also want a "do not resuscitate order" if I ever have Alzheimer or some other terrible curse.  My family will go through this with another family member.  This family member is in the final stage of Alzheimer disease and cannot do anything anymore except breathe and swallow and make some sounds.  When you know they are going to die and they will never come back to normal, everyone's suffering is so unbelievably painful.   

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