Mom, If 25% of My Brain is Gone

Mom, If 25% of My Brain is Gone - Don't Starve Me

Published on March 22, 2005 By greywar In Current Events

Shoot Me Instead!

Seriously... stab me, overdose me (heroin please), or smother me with a pillow. All of these would be preferable to starving to death in my case. Any would certainly be preferable to lingering on as a vegetable burdening my wife and family. Can't find the will to kill me? Call Calangelo, he'll do me quick and painless. Just don't leave me in a fucking bed shitting on myself.

Consider this a public notice of my intent to die rather than be preserved as a living petrie dish.

Comments (Page 1)

tomharper

on Mar 22, 2005

Whew! You sound like one hell of a masochist. OK, I'll smother you with a pillow if you want. But why? If you're such a masochist, I could set you on fire or stretch you out on a wheel if you'd rather

Or you could just see a therapist and try to get to the bottom of your fixation on pain. Dude!!

greywar

on Mar 22, 2005

You sound like one hell of a masochist.

Actually the entire point of the article is the avoidance of pain and suffering....

bakerstreet

on Mar 22, 2005

If your brain is gone, there is no pain and suffering. There's no loss of "dignity", none of the rot that people spew. If you are "meat", then you are just meat. Why should you care what your discarded husk does in its spare time?

Larry Kuperman

on Mar 22, 2005

I guess, BakerStreet, that many people, myself included, have the fear that that which makes us human, that spirit or atman or whatever, will be trapped within the meat.

greywar

on Mar 22, 2005

If you are "meat", then you are just meat. Why should you care what your discarded husk does in its spare time?

Did you catch the part about my wife and family? It is not just the "meat" that is lingering pointlessly. Oh yes also it is my body and my business right? A better question would be why do you care what my husk is doing? Especially when I have expressed wishes about it's disposition? Hmm?

Dr Guy

on Mar 22, 2005

WHile it is clear that TS is in a persistant vegitative state, it is also evident she can feel pain. The meat is not dead.

I am like Greywar. If you cant kill me, dont starve me to death. I would not even do that to a rabid skunk.

dharmagrl

on Mar 22, 2005

I am like Greywar. If you cant kill me, dont starve me to death. I would not even do that to a rabid skunk.

Me too. It's situations like this that made me want to get a living will.

JillUser

on Mar 22, 2005

Hey, if they drug me up, they can starve me. Just don't keep me alive on the false hope that I am going to "come back". I will never be me again. I think the chance of being aware at all while in a state like that is far more terrifying than being starved, smothered, shot, etc. Trapped in your own "husk" would be the epitomy of hell IMO.

Dr Guy

on Mar 22, 2005

Trapped in your own "husk" would be the epitomy of hell IMO.

If you are brain dead, how would you know?

greywar

on Mar 22, 2005

If you are brain dead, how would you know?

Again the real onus here is placed on the non-husks... not me...

Hey, if they drug me up, they can starve me.

ahh thats a morbid chuckle for me:) Nice to see you again Jill. Long time...

JillUser

on Mar 22, 2005

If you are brain dead, how would you know?

Let me ask some of my relatives on my Mom's side and I'll get back to you

ahh thats a morbid chuckle for me:)

I had a roommate in college who was a forensic pathology major and I married the grandson of a mortician, guess I picked up on the mindset

Nice to see you again Jill. Long time...

Glad I was missed. Life seems to keep interfering with my blogging.

Texas Wahine

on Mar 22, 2005

Best Terri Shiavo article yet.

Arquonzo

on Mar 22, 2005

25% gone? I'd say you swilled right past that milestone ages ago!

Estrogen Lass

on Mar 22, 2005

Baby, I give you full permisssion here and now to go ahead and get on with your life after it is deemed that I will never do anything again. I just ask 2 things: 1. If Peanut is not already dead by then, do not put her to sleep, and 2. A heroin overdose doesnt sound bad. I really wouldnt know the difference cause I would be a vegeatable.

My girl's a vegetable.......she lives in a hospital......

island_gurl12

on Mar 22, 2005

Well i wouldnt want to be kept alive cuz i would be a burden to my family.

And yeah it would suck to be kept there when i could be RIP.

just my 2 cents

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