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    From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to DARYL STOUT on Tue Dec 22 06:19:20 2020
    Daryl wrote --

    To which, she pulls the plug on the instruments keeping him alive,
    and leaves the room. <BG>

    When I was in my early 40s a group of friends (of similar age) and I
    were sitting around talking and the subject of mortality came up.
    I said I didn't want to be on life support and asked who would be
    willing to pull the plug on me. All hands went up right away. :)
    Joe

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  • From Ron Lauzon@1:275/89 to JOE MACKEY on Tue Dec 22 10:52:00 2020
    JOE MACKEY wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

    When I was in my early 40s a group of friends (of similar age) and I were sitting around talking and the subject of mortality came up.
    I said I didn't want to be on life support and asked who would be willing to pull the plug on me. All hands went up right away. :)

    When my parents hit "that age" they wrote up a set of instructions for us kids "just in case". One of those instructions was to not be put on life support for the long term.

    I feel the same way - but we haven't written up those instructions yet.


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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to JOE MACKEY on Tue Dec 22 08:49:00 2020
    JOE MACKEY wrote to DARYL STOUT <=-

    I said I didn't want to be on life support and asked who would be willing to pull the plug on me. All hands went up right away. :)

    That's what friends are for! :)



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  • From JOE MACKEY@1:123/140 to RON LAUZON on Wed Dec 23 06:42:34 2020
    Ron wrote --

    When my parents hit "that age" they wrote up a set of instructions for us kids "just in case". One of those instructions was to not be put on life support for the long term.

    I feel the same way - but we haven't written up those instructions yet.

    In this day and age of doctors taking all sorts of extraordinary measures when it comes to postponing death, its a good idea to have that in writing.
    And ones family doctor should have that information as well.
    Don't recognise you Ron, if you are new, Welcome. If you have been
    around welcome back.
    Joe Mackey, Mod
    Huntington, WV

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  • From Ron Lauzon@1:275/89 to JOE MACKEY on Thu Dec 24 09:48:00 2020
    JOE MACKEY wrote to RON LAUZON <=-

    I feel the same way - but we haven't written up those instructions yet.

    In this day and age of doctors taking all sorts of extraordinary measures when it comes to postponing death, its a good idea to have
    that in writing.
    And ones family doctor should have that information as well.

    That's the reason we've held off. My doctor will retire in the next few years and my wife hates her doctor right now.
    So when we get new doctors, it will become a priority and we'll get it done.

    Don't recognise you Ron, if you are new, Welcome. If you have been around welcome back.

    I used to BBS alot back in the day, but about 20 years ago a combination of job change, home move and Internet put me into
    a BBS wasteland.

    As I got deeper into my vintage computer hobby, I discovered telnet BBSs and decided to get back into BBSing.


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  • From Ron Lauzon@1:275/89 to Kurt Weiske on Thu Dec 24 10:40:00 2020
    Kurt Weiske wrote to JOE MACKEY <=-

    That's what friends are for! :)

    Friends help you move.
    But *real* friends help you move bodies.


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