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but if your will did not allow they would be able to help you
"I refuse any and all of the treatments you listed. I would refuse surgery to remove my appendix. I would refuse blood transfusions. No organ transplants for me. No chemo/radio. NO NOTHING. My living will refuses ALL TYPES of medical intervention. EMS gets called out to a wreck, and I'm lying there bleeding to death, they have to let me die. It's that extreme."
-bagpiper2005
But you do agree that if it was not for you living will that the EMT's would be able to help you, and would possibly save your life using modern (western) medicine ?
- MrBook
May 31, 2009 8:46AM
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Maybe, However...
It is my personal opinion that I would rather die than to be paralyzed for life, become an amputee, or something of that sort. That's why I refuse emergency treatment. Emergency treatment has its place (for those who are willing to live with being handicapped for the rest of their lives), however, due to the potential life-long effects (paralysis, loss of limbs) I'd rather just die than be "handicapped" personally.
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May 31, 2009 4:12PM
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your preference...
"It is my personal opinion that I would rather die than to be paralyzed for life, become an amputee, or something of that sort."
-bagpiper2005
It's your choice not to take that chance, though I'm curious as to what that chance is. However what I am trying to get at here is the effectiveness of modern (western) medicine . If someone goes face first through a windshield and slides across the pavement then which system offers them the best chance of survival and a normal life? Western medicine or the practices in your 'Natural Cures' book.
"Emergency treatment has its place (for those who are willing to live with being handicapped for the rest of their lives), however, due to the potential life-long effects (paralysis, loss of limbs) I'd rather just die than be "handicapped" personally."
-bagpiper2005
Again, what are the statistics behind this? If I fall, break a rib and puncture a lung, what are the chances that I will end up handicapped if I go to the emergency room?
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June 1, 2009 7:07AM
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Described situations
Face first thru the windshield onto the pavement = instantaneous death either way you slice it. Both are ineffective in this case.
Second situation leaves me VERY handicapped. Chances are I lose that lung, and I play a very air-intensive instrument, thus leaving me unable to play. Even so I'll have reduced lung capacity in that lung, which still leaves me unable to play the pipes. So that DOES leave me handicapped.
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June 1, 2009 7:21AM
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