In a message dated 04/18/2001 6:43:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
writes:

> betty, the national right to life organization at one time had forms and
>  directions on writing a "will to live" to give to your general practitioner
>  and to the hospital, copies for lawyers, family ect. don't know if they
>  still do this or not.
>
>  covered things like don't just keep me body alive, but, if i am alive don't
>  starve me to death by not giving water and food. helped if you wanted to
>  walk that fine line. i wish i remembered that address. masybe a web search
>  would get to them.
>
Well, I'm sitting here with a computer and ask jeeves.  If I can't find it
I'm pathetic.  I want to look at this and draw up my own living will
document.  I want to state for the record that as long as disabled people are
regarded as a lessor caste of society (by rule of man if not law), then I
cannot afford to let anyone have the decision to let me die.

There is no one close to me who will make the decision properly.  My
relatives on my Mom's side of the family have treated me like I'm an idiot
who cannot think for herself, and the people I can trust on my Dad's side of
the family are all in their 70s.  I'm guessing that they won't be around when
I get to that point, unless something happens by accident to put me in that
vulnerable position.

There is just too much evidence of congenital weirdness in my family.  Thanks
for the tip Ken.

Betty