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khizzette @khizzette (31) • Philippines 8 Jul 12

Usher's got involved in a jet ski accident and now the kid is reportedly brain-dead. It got me thinking, which is more compassionate? Fighting for the life of a loved one or just go ahead and pull the plug to avoid more...

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Do you have a living will?

dorannmwin @dorannmwin (36392) • United States 29 Jan 10

One of my nearest and dearest friends went home to be with the Lord on January 1, 2010. She was in a coma for several days before her family decided to turn off her life support. This lead me to the question, do you have a...

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Are you interested to learn CPR

jpso138 @jpso138 (7851) • Philippines 24 Oct 09

I know that most of us have heard about CPR or cardio-pulmonary resuscitation. In our country not many people are trained to do CPR. Knowing CPR can really mean the difference between life and death during cardiac arrest. However,...

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My Life is In Your Hands

diutay @diutay (1327) • Philippines 21 May 09

Will you consider taking off from life support system a family member who is in coma? Just today, I read a news item saying that a court in an East Asian country ruled in favor of the decision of the children of a comatose...

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Life Support....

CRIVAS @CRIVAS (1815) • Canada 10 Apr 09

This is a difficult decision to make but I have to ask: If you had a loved one in the hospital and they were intubated (that means that they couldn't breath on their own and had to have a machine do it), would you give them...

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Betty Page has died at 85 years old

momtrying2makeit @momtrying2makeit (3270) • United States 12 Dec 08

I saw it on Yahoo, she had a heart attack and her family had the life support pulled, my heart goes out to her family. She was a great pin up girl back in the 1950's anyway I guess this is my question to the mylot peeps, if you...

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Parents wont unplug Life Support on Brain Dead Child

moonlitmagikchild @moonlitmagikchild (22181) • United States 9 Nov 08

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27611868/ test in every way say he is dead but the machines are making him breathe and heart beat which makes his religious parents believe he isnt fully dead so they wont unplug him.. meanwhile this...

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when is a good time to let someone go

Corimore @Corimore (249) • United States 31 Oct 08

when they are not breathing for themselves? Eating for themselves? heart beating on it's own? irreversible brain damage or brain death? When should you pull the plug?

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how do you reinvigorate your energies when life seem low?

nuemann @nuemann (332) • United States 9 Aug 08

I want to know how you can summon up all that courage that you require to keep you going after you discover that your plans are not going the way you want them to... I mean when you feel like the earth is crashing in on you and...

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Is your last will and testament really up to date?

gratitude @gratitude (181) • South Africa 26 Apr 08

I never considered adding into my last will and testament something that I felt strongly about, until a few years back, seeing on our tv news, the ongoing saga of Terry Schiavo. I followed the story via the internet and was...

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Quality of life, stay connected or pull the plug?

mommyboo @mommyboo (13174) • United States 14 Apr 08

Would you want to end up as a vegetable for years with your story drug through the media forever or removed from life support when it was obvious your quality of life was gone? What constitutes quality of life for you? Would you...

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You've gotta pull the plug....

luvingmygirls @luvingmygirls (493) • United States 5 Mar 08

Ok so someone you love dearly is on life support. The doctor says this is a long term thing so we have 2 options: 1) Pull the plug and hope for a miracle 2) Transfer to a longterm care facility and wait for a miracle. What do...

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Could you switch of a life suport machine off?

violeta_va @violeta_va (4831) • Australia 19 Oct 07

Ricently in my family the daughters of a relative had to make a decision to sitch off their fathers life support machine. Do you think you can make that decision and live with that. I dont know if I could I would probably live it...

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Director adds real life to Queen Latifah film

cash_money @cash_money (13) • India 7 Mar 07

A watchdog of black American culture who might have directed any movie he wanted, but when it came to his first film, Nelson George tapped into subjects that hit close to home -- drugs, AIDS and his sister. hee hee (comments...

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Another death question...

itsjustmeb @itsjustmeb (1212) • Canada 4 Feb 07

If someone very close to you was dying... and you knew the only way they were staying alive was by life support, would you pull the plug and let them go? Or would you keep up the fight for them? When is the line drawn? I mean...

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My Father is Ill and Wants Me To Pull The Plug, Please Help Me!

slappynuttz @slappynuttz (19) • United States 31 Dec 06

My father is 83 years old and has been hospitalized for almost 2 months now. He has been diagnosed with a type of terminal cancer and needs to be connected to a life support machine that feeds him nutrients in order to keep him...

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HAVE YOU HAD TO MAKE THE DECESION TO TAKE A DYING REALITIVE OFF LIFE SUPPORT?

kaspyv @kaspyv (1011) • United States 16 Dec 06

I believe the hardest thing I have ever had to do in my entire life was to sign the papers to take my late husband off life support. I know it was the right thing and the only thing I could do, but at the time I felt so helpless,...

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do you support death by wish???

mimpi @mimpi1911 (25464) • India 30 Nov 06

do you approve of death by depriving terminally ill patients of life support system??

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At what point in time would you pull the plug on life support?

bfa731 @bfa731 (409) • United States 26 Oct 06

Would you wait it out until to see if the person would experience some kind of miracle and revive or would you rather pull the plug and let the person rest in peace?

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