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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 580831" data-attributes="member: 4932">Probably...he and his wife have Living Wills and Health Care directives.Anyone who goes into a hospital without those two things may find the medical system doing things to them they may not like.&nbsp; For example, hooking people up to machines and feeding tubes when there is nothing but a flatline on a brain scan.It is more likely that you will be kept &#039;alive&#039; when you don&#039;t want to be, than that you will be &#039;euthanized&#039;.Particularly if your religious beliefs do not include &#039;heroic&#039; measures (Roman Catholics do not) you need to insure that YOU AND YOUR FAMILY make those decisions, not some doctor who thinks they are god.&nbsp; That&#039;s what Living Wills and Health Care directives do for people: insure that THEY are in control, not some faceless system.The bill states that consultations with a doctor to discuss this sort of thing is reimbursed.&nbsp; I would like to know that I can discuss all of the sort of therapies and procedures available, and what all the scary medical terms mean, BEFORE my family has to try and make sense of it all while I am on a gurney, hooked up to who knows what machines.Not a death panel in sight...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 580831, member: 4932"] Probably...he and his wife have Living Wills and Health Care directives. Anyone who goes into a hospital without those two things may find the medical system doing things to them they may not like. For example, hooking people up to machines and feeding tubes when there is nothing but a flatline on a brain scan. It is more likely that you will be kept 'alive' when you don't want to be, than that you will be 'euthanized'. Particularly if your religious beliefs do not include 'heroic' measures (Roman Catholics do not) you need to insure that YOU AND YOUR FAMILY make those decisions, not some doctor who thinks they are god. That's what Living Wills and Health Care directives do for people: insure that THEY are in control, not some faceless system. The bill states that consultations with a doctor to discuss this sort of thing is reimbursed. I would like to know that I can discuss all of the sort of therapies and procedures available, and what all the scary medical terms mean, BEFORE my family has to try and make sense of it all while I am on a gurney, hooked up to who knows what machines. Not a death panel in sight... [/QUOTE]

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