i dont see the point of clinging to life if it means being comatose on a life support machine
say you are in a horrible accident would you prefer that your family and friends made the decision to turn off your life support machine or not
this is if you are severely brain damaged and can only move your eyes a fraction of an inch. you cant use your muscles and are fed through a tube
2007-04-15 21:55:59 · 45 answers · asked by maraesa1000 5 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Wow, that's a really good question. I'm a fun, life-clingy type of person but that's only in the condition of being alive and able to have fun and enjoy my life. If I were to have an accident that would leave me on a life support machine...would I want it turned off? I think that I would, yes. If there was no way I could possibly regain my motor skills and be able to be at least a fraction of the person I used to be, then yeah. I don't want to live to become a burden to anyone, and prolonging my life for no scientific or moral reason would just be wrong, besides it would harm a lot of people myself included. Why would I want to live and be a constant reminder to them of their daughter or friend? I would not want them to remember me as being comatose and being fed through a tube, I would want them to remember me for who I was, an energetic and fun loving person. So, if things were to come to this, then I would want the machine to be turned off. To spare my family and friends the guilt and grief of having to make the decision themselves when they already know what I would really want.
2007-04-15 22:08:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
After 6 months if there is nothing more the doctors can do, then yes I want the machine turned off. To me being hooked up to a machine, being unable to move and speak is not living. I would no longer be me.
2007-04-15 21:59:21 · answer #2 · answered by Shannon A 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I was to wake up and be a vegetable for life then yes, I would want the machine turned off. If there was a chance I could wake up and have some quality of life and not be a burden to my family then no.
2007-04-15 22:00:43 · answer #3 · answered by Nickynackynoo 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I wasn't going to have any quality of life if I ever woke up then yes I would prefer for the life support machine to be turned off
2007-04-15 22:21:38 · answer #4 · answered by red lyn 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I would want my life support machine switched off. There is no point in trying to delay what will happen. I have promised my friend Richard who is dying from 2 cancers (colon cancer and lymphoma) that if he needs a life support machine to keep him alive, I will if it is kinder to him allow him to die with dignity. We have discussed this at great length and this is the only solution. I would want my loved ones to do that for me if there was a need to do so.
I cannot see the point of prolonging the suffering of someone you love. I know that it is painful to allow a loved one to die, but we all must die sometime.
2007-04-16 12:50:35 · answer #5 · answered by tunisianboy46 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Life should be enjoyed. I would want it turned off because:
1. My family would suffer more watching me slowly die than if I was gone
2. I would be in hell literally, if i cant enjoy life why hang onto it?
3. Someone else can use the facilities and doctors and stuff...coz in the end it takes so much to keep me alive and for what?
2007-04-15 22:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by sumthing_to_say_12 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hell no. Seriously I was on a life support machine last January. They had told my family several times to expect the worst..............well without going on and on.......I am still here to tell the tale....so no unless the Doctors were 100% sure there was no life left in me I wouldnt want it turning off...
2007-04-15 22:04:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would want it turned off only after everyone who knew and loved me felt like they had had closure and had said their good-byes.
I would not want one family member selfishly pulling the plug without letting all the family members knowing about it first.
I have known of this to happen to a friend of mine with her dad. The family pulled the plug on the dad,when my friend had gone home to shower. My friend did not get to kiss her dad one last time... The ensuing grief was so great, and that, combined with other things - my frend took her own life...
I don't want to stay alive for me, but for those who need to feel like they've said their goodbyes.
2007-04-15 22:02:42 · answer #8 · answered by scruffycat 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In that case, I would want my life support turned off. There is no sense in living a life that you cannot enjoy in any way. Being trapped in one position not being able to interact with the world around you is not way to live.
2007-04-15 22:01:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In a coma it seems feasible that one enters a lucid dream world in the mind...so in that respect definitely not.
However, if it is just an indefinite state of unconsciousness or worse still a state of paralysis but with absolute consciousness as recent studies have indicated, then yes.
2007-04-15 21:59:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋