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Wivvy
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I think I would so long as there was a form on the back giving detailed instructions regarding someone disposing of my pron collection etc before my mum was allowed access to my house 
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Roughie
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whats a pron collection 
Yes i would carry the card  i should have the right to choose
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Tiny
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Deffo.
If I turned into a someone who just sat there day in day out dependingon others to feed me and wipe my ass - I'd rather die.
Quality of life versus death.
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Biker-Spawn
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Rather be dead than crippled.
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Firecracker
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yawn... We've had something similar in the US for years, called a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate). A bit narrower in scope than the card discussed here, it allows people to sign a statement when they're still fit & mentally competent to do so, telling doctors not to use heroic measures to prolong their lives. Generally signed when a patient first finds out they've got a terminal disease, or by the very elderly that don't want to end up a vegetable & a drain on their family.
It's not a refuse-all-treatment card or a tacit euthanasia agreement, as those opposing this in the UK want us to believe. 
Reminds me of the chip-n-pin debate - laughed my *rse off at the opponents of that one too with their scaremongering predictions, as many other countries (US & DK, for example) have been doing it for decades.
Why do people sooooo enjoy hoping for the worst possible scenario to materialise?
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AJ
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'Cause we're British, love.
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Tinks
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| Firecracker wrote: | yawn... We've had something similar in the US for years, called a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate). A bit narrower in scope than the card discussed here, it allows people to sign a statement when they're still fit & mentally competent to do so, telling doctors not to use heroic measures to prolong their lives. Generally signed when a patient first finds out they've got a terminal disease, or by the very elderly that don't want to end up a vegetable & a drain on their family.
It's not a refuse-all-treatment card or a tacit euthanasia agreement, as those opposing this in the UK want us to believe.
Reminds me of the chip-n-pin debate - laughed my *rse off at the opponents of that one too with their scaremongering predictions, as many other countries (US & DK, for example) have been doing it for decades.
Why do people sooooo enjoy hoping for the worst possible scenario to materialise? |
Dont you watch Holby we have DNR here also
The US is is a hoy spot for UK credit card fraud with £24.4million dodgy transactions last yr, i only used chip and pin once.
Im down to be an organ donor so wont carry one of these cards just incase that sways things in anyway.
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Suzibabe
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Often donate to Dignity in Dying and get their mailouts etc.
Robert and I have both talked about this and wouldn't want to be a burden on the other. Once I start dribbling out the corner of my mouth, being incontinent and having no sense of reality then I wouldn't want to be a drain on society or my loved ones.
Oh and we both carry donor cards - all my bits apart from my eyes can be used. (Sounds strange I know)
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Wivvy
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| Suzibabe wrote: | ... Once I start dribbling out the corner of my mouth, being incontinent and having no sense of reality then I wouldn't want to be a drain on society or my loved ones.
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isnt that the same as Pan ownership? |
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| Suzibabe wrote: | | Once I start dribbling out the corner of my mouth, being incontinent and having no sense of reality then |
In all honesty those are the symptoms of being full  |
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biggus
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| Wivvy wrote: | | isnt that the same as Pan ownership? |
 
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There are II types of people in the world: those who understand Roman numerals and those who don't.
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Firecracker
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| Tinks wrote: | The US is is a hoy spot for UK credit card fraud with £24.4million dodgy transactions last yr, i only used chip and pin once.
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...which illustrates my point that chip n pin technology doesn't create problems, the lack of it does!
Didn't know about the DNR over here - good to know. Would deffo sign one to prevent spending the rest of my life alone in a nursing home, awake but unable to move or speak. Shudder. |
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