{"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. I suppose if anything I would leave the option&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":595,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2007\/02\/23\/595\/","url_meta":{"origin":658,"position":0},"title":"Almost a week since I've\u2026","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"February 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost a week since I've updated.Updates on my main site... www.jshox.com On the family front....My brother and sister in law have lost custody to Jordan.\u00a0 Then a little later we found out that they won't have custody to Alexis or Hailey either.My family is going to go to the courts\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12630,"url":"https:\/\/jshox.com\/jay\/2026\/02\/11\/pdxwlf-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":658,"position":1},"title":"All the little things","author":"me@jshox.com","date":"February 11, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Hey there It's that time again - the Portland Winter Light Festival is here! 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