{"id":658,"date":"2007-10-13T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/?p=658"},"modified":"2007-10-13T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T20:49:00","slug":"658","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2007\/10\/13\/658\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hola!<\/p>\n<p>If you were brain dead, would you want to be kept alive by a ventilator? Why or why not?<\/p>\n<p>Good question.<\/p>\n<p>If there were no chances of me coming back, then I would see no point in wasting all that money to keep me alive.  I suppose if anything I would leave the option open to my family.  With an emphasis that if I had no chance that it be unplugged and a chance for me to &#8220;do or die&#8221;.  If there was nobody else in my family to make that choice, I would say that I wouldn&#8217;t want to.<\/p>\n<p>However, if one of my family members had this happen &#8211; it would be extremely hard, and I don&#8217;t think I would be able to make a decision like that unless I had talked to them previously about the subject and got their feedback before making such a monumental decision on my own.<\/p>\n<p>just Pray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hola! If you were brain dead, would you want to be kept alive by a ventilator? Why or why not? Good question. If there were no chances of me coming back, then I would see no point in wasting all that money to keep me alive. 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