Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
See, this is where we disagree. First of all, all I see it saying, is that stopping treatment is an option. An option that needs to be considered. How is that wrong? For or against, that remains a fact.

Secondly, I do not see any problem for a guy who doesn't want his treatment ended. Actually, the way I read this pamphlet, is that prolonging life is seen as the default choice, and that this pamphlet is about making you think about whether that's what you want or not.
You say tomayto and I say tomahto? Fair enough.

Before I drop it completely though, one last time for those of you that are confused and I think I'm arguing against end-life-care decision counseling, I'm not. I personally am not afraid to die, though I am terrified immensely of unnecessary and prolonged agony, or loss of identity (Alzheimer's runs frighteningly high in my family). I'm not certain I won't even be a bit proactive, given a Kobyashi Maru scenario.

However, I have made these considerations and I have made that choice. Who the hell am I to tell anybody else "well, if you weren't so selfish, you'd see that you should kill yourself, or at least deny feeding/treatment and let yourself die, but hey... you do what you want...", which is exactly how this pamphlet reads to me.