I was talking with one of the women I work with about this unnatural practice of keeping people alive indefinitely with machines.... it makes me sick. I just now read that the woman in FL who was supposed to be taken off her feeding tube today had been on one for 13 years. I can't imagine "living" like that. Those people who supposedly love her kept her on machines all that time, just because they are too selfish to let her go gracefully.

Living like that is not living. Her family should have to suffer what she's been through, since they were the ones who wanted to keep her around, no matter how they had to do it.

Makes me want to write up a living will right now, and make sure everyone knows that I do not want to be recessutated (sp).