Poll: Would you have the plug pulled?

[snafu11485]

The problem with your scenario is that even tho you're horribly hurt, you're not on life support so even allowing your family to DNR you, it would mean you would have to delvelop a condition in that 5 years that would kill you unless the hospital resuscitated you. Otherwise even with the DNR you'll still continue to live.

Now if it was a scenario where you were in a coma and had machines keeping you alive and the doctors have no idea when you'll wake up....

Well I've already told my family that if there's no sign of improvement within 6 months, pull the plug and move on with your lives.

 

[JaredXE]

Yes.

But first, just to prove they should let me go, I want a Playboy Playmate to be brought to my bed(wearing a sexy outfit), lean over and talk to me, with the words "Spanking", "Sponge Bath" and "Twin" part of what she is saying.

If there is no sign of life, then let me die, I WANT to die.

 

[Heathrow]

Losing five years of your life is better than losing the rest of your life.

 

[jebbo]

A ridiculous scenario because you would never know that you would get better in 5 years. My family know to let me go in the case of coma/braindead. I've also contemplated having a DNR placed on my medical records. I don't know why but I just don't like the idea of being brought back

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

There are only two scenarios I have ever honestly thought I could not deal with on an emotional level, the first is going completely blind, the second is losing my arms (legs not so much). In a situation like this, I could go the five years. I might be bored, but I could do it.

Also, given my love of writing and music, I would use the time come up with stories, compositions, and everything I would be able to fully return to after getting better.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

I'd reserve the DNR for an "I'm-definitely-not-going-to-wake-up-EVER" scenario.

 

[recoverytwo]

This article as a somewhat similar situation : http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/23/man-trapped-coma-23-years

 

[sms_117b]

I'd end it.

I love exercise, it's just a big a part of me as gaming, I've been home bound for 4 months with a illness, I hate it, I'm going insane, everything is becoming boring, I've been out on a good day once every week or so, but it's not enough, I'm one of those guys that trains twice a day, everyday and loves every second of it, 4 months with out seems short to you or insignificant, but it's like going with out electricity for 4 months, try that.

This illness and the way it's effected my life so far, in four months has made me wish I hadn't survived my heart attack when I was 17, and the first time since then I've felt so.

 

[Mad World]

No - I wouldn't. When compared to the rest of your life, five years isn't that long.

Most importantly, human beings don't have the right to decide when someone else deserves to die.

 

[ucciolord1]

I... I don't know...

 

[Admiral Stukov]

Call me crayzy if you wish but I'm somewhat obsessed with prolongning my life, so no, not a chance. And I state here and now that if something like this happanes to me I want to be a test subject in an experiment to hardwire my brain directly to the internet. How could I in fact say no to that?

 

[Mcface]

Well I read int he paper there was a man in England who was in a car wreck when he was 24, he was misdiagnosed by his doctor saying he was in a vegitative state, he wasn.t he was infact paralyized.

He has been paralyzed, unable to tell anyone he was aware of EVERYTHING for the past 20 some years. he is now 46.

 

[Sansha]

Yes. I'm somewhat suicidal anyway so a chance to go without actually committing suicide would be a thumbs up for me.

 

[niglett]

usually pull the plug refers to someone in a coma or brain dead (its a real term). its illegal to pull the plug otherwise. if i where to be in a coma i have it so that five doctors have to each give there opinion on whether i will live to see the light again. if majority say no its time to pull my plug. if i'm under for over a year pleas oh please pull the plug and don't ever get me on t.v. in any vegetable state. that's at least a summery of my plan if i ever go veggitails.

 

[Furioso]

As long as I don't end up on TV you can do whatever the hell you want with me

 

[Darkrain11]

5 years isn't so long. I could take the bordom and pain.

 

[dodo1331]

Um.. If I said yes, does that make me a bad person or something? I mean, five years? Without Muse? Or Slayer? Or my girlfriend? I don't think so.

 

[Epitome]

Answered too fast thought it was permanent bedridden, yeah i could go five years lying on my ass