New to answerbank so have to bare with me..

[Nikephoros1]

I was sitting down enjoying a cup of tea with the lads on site, and while we were having a good chat this question was raised: If you became so ill that you would die if you did not stay hooked up to a large life support machine for the rest of your life, would you want someone to pull the plug? We had a debate and arranged that it would be fair to pull the plug, but nicer to pull it during when we were asleep. What do you think?

[daffy654]

I have already discussed this matter with my family after being diagnosed with emphysema earlier this year. I don't mind if I have to be intubated for a day or two during an exacerbation of my condition but when I become end stage I wish to be allowed to die...being on a ventilator permanently would be awful in my opinion...and a drain on the already overstretched NHS.

[Ethel]

Has this hypothetical person any faculties left?

[bobtheturkey]

id want to be on ab when the plug was pulled

[Doc Spock]

How come all these "new" users have Greek sounding names.

Pull the plug now.

[B00]

hey....welcome back crossy!

[bobtheturkey]

im sure there was nikephoros who played for paok salonkia in the uefa cup a few years ago

[mrs_overall]

It's easy to make such a decision when you're fit and well but you don't know how you'd feel if push came to shove. One of my brothers broke his back and was in a spinal ward for 2 years. He's paralysed from the waist down. At the time of his accident he said he didn't want to live life in a wheelchair and wanted to die. Eight years on he still wishes he had died. In the same spinal ward was a teenage boy who was paralysed from the neck down, similar to Christopher Reeves. He wanted to live at any price and although he can't move a muscle he has a better attitude to life than my brother. Also, I have an auntie who has been on dialysis for 12 years. She is a believer in life at any price. Over the years she's seen quite a few people with kidney failure who have refused dialysis and died as they didn't want to spend 3 days a week hooked up to a machine.
I've always said I'd want someone to pull the plug on me or stick a pillow over my face if I turned into a drooler.

[mrs_overall]

Another point....you say you're new to AB so we'll "have to bare with you."
Does this mean we can only post answers if we get our kit off??????

[B00]

oi, i aint exposing my vest to no one Mrs O!

[mrs_overall]

Me neither....my liberty bodice, corsets and surgical stockings are staying firmly in place under my pinny!

[Doc Spock]

Who is crossy Boo ?

[cruella]

Crossy is Nikephoros 1
WE all caught on to yesterday!

[Doc Spock]

you mean crossroads,

[cruella]

The very same!

[weeal]

Hey Im a newbie and Im confused!!! lol

[Nikephoros1]

Hello, my name is greek for "carrier of victory".
Crossy?
I'm new to answerbank anyway.

[Shadow Man]

Go and eat your taramasalata elsewhere. Bloody Greeks.

(PS is a bit of random racism funnier than some numb nut pretending to be new?)

[Nikephoros1]

I have little to do with Greece, shadowman.
I was born there and thats it. My family are not Greek, although my sister and her husband live in Greece.

[B00]

ya really gotta try harder crossy, we aint as green as we're cabbage looking you know.

[samsong7]

Blinkin' eck mrs_overall... Liberty bodice !! now that does age you !!!