dnr...

[missjef]

if say your were in an accident or such like, would you want to be recussatated (sorry for my spelling)? Also if you were recussatated and then went into a come or became braindead, how would you feel if your life support machine got switched off? would you be angry at your relatives for deciding to do that?

[ummmm1]

But you'd be dead!!!!!!!

[IggyB]

if you were brain dead i doubt you'd feel very much about the situation one way or another

[missjef]

good point.. i mean if the situation of life after death arose... !!!

[boro1986]

If i was gonna be in a permanent vegative state i would not want to live so i would rather have it turned off!

[IggyB]

if however i was in a persistent vegetative state, not brain dead, i would expect my family to remove life support and allow me to die (after a suitable period of trying to revive me) just in case i was trapped inside my body being unable to communicate with the outside world - a personal fear of mine and not a way to send the rest of your life following an accident

[crete]

you could always come back and haunt the relatives who gave their permission to discontinue life support.

[ummmm1]

I had a friend who was in an accident. In a coma for about six months. They told his family that he was brain dead and wanted to turn the machines off. His mother refused. He came round......Although not quite the same person he was before.....he was fine. Very forgetful but fine


He committed suicide about ten years later

[crete]

oh no ummm how sad, was the suicide related to his accident do you think ?

[idalovett]

A doctor will always try and resuscitate a person but my next of kin know that if I am severely brain damaged that they will obey my wishes that life support is switched off. My doctor has my wishes on file and as I understand from her any doctor takes a living will into consideration. If I was brain dead then of course I am dead but if I was incarcerated in a shell,drip fed and kept alive because of the medical ethics and laws then my next of kin and doctor know my wishes if the circumstances arose and I would never be angry at people speaking for me and for my wishes that I would be unable to say for myself..

[4getmenot]

how depressing are you today :-) I wouldnt want to be in that state or to be a burden, I would want them to turn it off

[ummmm1]

Yea.....he couldn't work again after it and became depressed. He also thought he was a burden because all his mates use to take him out for a few beers because he didn't have a lot of money. He was lovely and really funny but couldn't stand the way he felt. It was a very sad time.

[drchasuble]

If I were in a vegetative state I would want my family to let me go.
My mother is a nurse and used to specialise in geratrics. She said lots of the patients had DNR on their records but families would often override this. She would have to explain that doing CPR on a little old lady with osteoporosis would most likely break their ribs and sternum and cause a lot of pain but the people would rather overlook these repercussions than let go.

[mycats]

My granny (after having breast cancer 3 times) and my mum (after having breast cancer once) both now have DNRs.
When my mum showd me hers well its called a "statement of intent" it was a horrible thing to read but we talked about it and thats what she wants.
I have to agree, I cant stand the thought of being kept "alive"by machines