Bourgeois pigs kill suicidal 16 year old boy.

[shoju]

On one hand, I side with Jester, that isn't living.
On the other hand, I don't know how I feel about legally entitled, or the idea that you could become "legally entitled" by suing for it, and going against the wishes of the person in question.

I don't think you can become legally entitled to contravene someone's living will, can you? I don't know the law here, but I'd have thought that if someone says in writing to pull the plug, you pull the plug.

-Jester

They are of the opinion (and apparently have found a lawyer who agrees) that if you can prove that the person made the living will was of somehow not "With it" enough mentally, you could challenge it.

Basically, they are trying to say that my father's condition has impaired his judgement. It hasn't. It's changed his outlook for sure, and it's made him more tired, and it's made him more emotional (who wouldn't be more emotional if you had something in your brain that would eventually kill you?), but it hasn't made him "mentally deficient".

I don't know if they are necessarily trying to say that he is somehow stupid now, or that he isn't thinking clearly or what, but they are certainly going to try and prove that his condition has made him not think this through well enough to decide for himself. Because they look at the advances that have been made, and they think that they will somehow be able to "keep him on ice" until they find a way to remove the mass that is causing the problems without damaging "good tissue", and that when he wakes up from this, and is alive, and happy and healthy (and older) he will somehow be grateful for it. Another Stroke wont ruin him. more years with this thing bleeding in his brain wont hurt him, nope. Those are all just temporary things.

I know some of it is denial, and there is a healthy dose of "I don't want to lose him" involved in it. I truly hope it doesn't get to a point where they decide they want to take this to court. I hope that they listen to reason.