Related to my verbal living will ...

[apocalypsos]

I am going to state an unpopular opinion.

If I ever go into a vegetative state while married, and it takes them over ten years to get around to pulling my plug, I really hope my husband hasn't been sitting next to my bed all that time. In fact, I'd really appreciate it if he'd come to the hospital for the unplugging straight from impregnating a stripper.

In other words, I really don't give a damn who my husband sleeps with after I'm pretty much deceased in my own eyes. :)

EDIT: Of course, that's an addendum to my rules of marriage that if Angelina Jolie (or whichever hot actress he likes) shows up at my front door and wants to run off with my husband, I completely understand and have no argument. That comes with the Johnny Depp loophole on my end, too. ;)

Comments

[wyldkyss.livejournal.com]

10 years? Unplug me after 1. Or maybe a few months. I mean seriously, damn.

[drewbeartx.livejournal.com]

In fact, I'd really appreciate it if he'd come to the hospital for the unplugging straight from impregnating a stripper.

Aww... They'll name her after you! Idn't that sweet?

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! Geez, I'd hope that my hubby wouldn't leave me vegging for 15 years, but surely to god he'd go find somebody nice.

*(In a related, but completely irrational decision, I'd be pissed if he married somebody else less than a year after I died. If I'm a vegetable, he can screw around on me, but I want a formal mourning period, so there. I never claimed to be consistent.)

[chubbycore.livejournal.com]

girl, i hear you. I already told my wife she can't have a new girlfriend until at least 6 months after I die. And I told her of a few people She can never date. I plan to come back to haunt her if she does not obey.

[florahart]

He hasn't been sitting there ALL that time. Just since they removed the tube again. Unless he *has been there all that time, and he impregnated the mother of his children while there, in which case, um, ew.

Heh.

[jedilora.livejournal.com]

Heh. Ever read Spider Robinson? One of his stories involves a quadrapalegic firefighter whose wife comes to see him all the time. By the third year in the hospital, she's bringing her boyfriend along, and the husband and the boyfriend become friends as well.

Not quite vegetable, but the idea pleased me. Approving your spouse's SO after you...leetle odd, but hey, everyone was happy.

[kkglinka.livejournal.com]

Oh, I dunno. Some of us are pretty liberal on that point. I don't have any problem with additional people being involved, so long as a) I know about it up front and b) everything is handled in a safe manner. After all, without point 'a', it's cheating but with it, it's consensual.

[tree220.livejournal.com]

perhaps you need to look more into the facts before you start passing judgment on what the husband has and hasn't done.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'm not passing judgment on anything the husband has done at all. I was just sick of hearing the guy who was covering for Bill O'Reilly bitching and moaning about the guy like he's the epitome of pure, unadulterated evil. That's just what what I would want my imaginary husband to do in that situation.

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

WORD. If the guy had divorced his wife he'd be crucified right now. If he's so bad then why didn't he just take the 700,000 and spend it on him and his lover? He seems to really care about what his wife wants to do and there's NO MONEY left for him to OMGSPEND. People kill me man. *smh*

[fyrdrakken]

Yeah, last weekend my grandmother was bitching about how the money the husband won in the lawsuit was supposedly for her rehabilitation and soon as he got the money he cancelled the rehab and started pushing to pull the plug. I'm assuming she was getting all that crap from listening to Rush Limbaugh or someone, the idea that this whole thing was about money from the husband's standpoint and never mind that he spent the whole settlement on legal fees and lawyers.

[prettyveela.livejournal.com]

I just saw on the news that out of that settlement, Michael only has 40,000 dollars left and it's in a trust fund. They also said that he spent the money on little things like cutting Terri's hair and stuff like that.

[fyrdrakken]

Hmm. I'd want more details on the "stuff like that" -- was the impression being given that he was frittering it away on petty useless shit or that he was spending it to tend to his wife, and was this report valid or spin? And what I'd heard was that court costs ate up the majority of the settlement. (Can't recall if I heard what exactly was paying for the hospice care -- Medicare/Medicaid/insurance/settlement money?)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

In other words, I really DO want my husband to get out and date. :)

[kindyll.livejournal.com]

I agree wholeheartedly.
I also have a similar famous person loophole built into my relationships too. :)

[mo-n-josh.livejournal.com]

Regarding the verbal Living Will...

Did you know that you can create a Living Will/Health Care Proxy in Virginia without a lawyer, and that it doesn't have to be notarized? All you need is a form and two witnesses that are not blood relatives.

More here

We're doing ours (using these nifty forms courtesy of New York State) this weekend while visiting my folks for Easter.

[harmonyfb.livejournal.com]

EDIT: Of course, that's an addendum to my rules of marriage that if Angelina Jolie (or whichever hot actress he likes) shows up at my front door and wants to run off with my husband, I completely understand and have no argument. That comes with the Johnny Depp loophole on my end, too. ;)

Well, naturally. I have dispensation for Kenneth Branaugh and Sean Bean; the husband has dispensation for Sharon Stone and the woman from Dark Angel. Those would get a hand wave and a "Have fun, sweetie". ;)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

It's like I said today to the Grouch. Angelina Jolie? Oh, I can't beat that hand. I fold. You get my husband. :)

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

Why is that Dolly Parton Song, Jolene, going through my head?

[sabotabby]

I agree. I want the plug pulled immediately, but that's besides the point. Anyone who's waiting around that long isn't romantic. He's obsessed. Also, ewww.

[pescivendolo.livejournal.com]

I agree. Although if my husband ever goes into a coma, I'll be sticking by his side so I get to be Tasty Coma Wife (or "TCW") and sleep with his hot doctors.

[teleute12.livejournal.com]

If Angelina Jolie shows up at my door and wants to run off with my husband, I'm insisting on coming along, damnit.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Hee. So would I. :)

[fyrdrakken]

I'm thinking in terms of a "brain scan clause" myself -- since they've recently discovered than an MRI or EEG or whatever can tell the difference between a vegetable and a coma someone might come out of with faculties intact. If the scan comes back with a verdict of "stewed brain," they don't need to go wasting any time at all hoping I'll wake up.