Friday, June 19, 2009

Who says

People say you should sign a will. The night before my brother went in for surgery, we reviewed his will. It's one thing to plan your life when you are alive, but when you are gone, the choices aren't about you. If things go wrong -- "Just pull the plug, I know where I'm going" my brother says. What? Easy for him to say, being well, talking about something that to him isn't even a reality. You just don't think that it will really happen before you go into surgery. But then when you are lying there, supported by machines, bodily organs failing, unable to talk... do you really expect your wife or your mother or any family to just "pull the plug". The choice was not his to make.

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