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Dear Future Husband,*
*(or anyone else who might end up in charge of my care, should I become unable to care for myself) Please take a look at some of my writings: Yo! My Middle-Name's Cheeseball! http://www.epinions.com/hmgd-review-5584-5863582-3975938B-prod1 Michaelangelo's: A Mealtime Masterpiece! http://www.epinions.com/trvl-review-7455-111CA1C-397A6AA4-prod3 Step Right Up! Feed Your Face! Make This World A Better Place! EHHW/O http://www.epinions.com/content_28935425668 The Cake We Fell In Love To http://www.epinions.com/content_40578354820 Now, do you honestly believe that my preference would be to have my earthly life brought to an end by being starved to death!?! In case you're still clueless--or, in the case of a husband, have some young bombshell waiting for you to become a widower, so you pretend to be clueless re: my wishes--I'm stating my wishes right here and now. . .WHICH ARE!?! Well, I definitely don't want to be denied nourishment, even if it's no longer entering my body by mouth and giving my tastebuds multiple orgasms as I might prefer it to be. Nourishment is nourishment--and there might come a time when I will be eating to live instead of living to eat--but that doesn't mean that I want to be killed off. The way I see it is that only God has the right to determine when my earthly life is over and that anything else would either be murder or suicide--unless I were about to kill you and you had no other way to defend yourself but to kill me. In that case, there would be the option of self-defense. But this is a time in my life when I'm fragile and bedridden, so I'm sure that there would be nothing I could do to you that you couldn't get away from, so self-defense really doesn't apply here. That means that, if my perception of my surroundings becomes altered in some way to where I might kick or hit you out of fright when you're adjusting my oxygen or turning me in bed, deciding to kill me for my actions would still come under murder rather than self-defense. Therefore, before you decide to make those vows to love and cherish me until death does us part, remember that you won't be able to go to some judge and tell him about how I didn't want to be kept alive by artificial means. Ditto to anyone in whose care I end up in--If you have some sort of agenda where I'm worth more to you dead than alive, don't even think about pretending to carry out my wishes not to be kept alive! Because I'm making a public statement right now: I want full-code!!! If my heart stops--unless most of the other organs of my body have actually shut down already, as happened with Indiana's Governor, Frank O'Bannon--try to get it to beating again! However, if I'm truly brain-dead for however long it takes to determine whether or not I am (I'd say about 36 hours) and I'm just being animated like a Disney robot by use of a lot of different machines that are doing everything to simulate life in my corpse, remove my organs, bone tissue, skin tissue, etc. to give to those who need it, and then make everything official by shutting off the machines and giving me a wonderful Celebration Of Life service at my church. http://www.centralindiana.com/netdirect/colonial.htm These are my wishes made clear to anyone who happens to be reading this! Ainsley Jo Phillips Date: October 10, 2003 October 10, 2003. . .a date to think about. . .On this date, there will be some serious decision-making to determine whether or not a lovely woman in Florida named Terri will have her feeding tube clamped off in five more days in order to start the long, painful execution-by-starvation that her husband claims that she wants, though it actually seems to be more of a case of what her husband wants. I would like to invite you to get to know Theresa Schindler-Schiavo and the details of her situation by going here: http://www.terrisfight.org/ Meanwhile, here in Indiana, Daddy (who has both a feeding tube like Terri's AND oxygen) will be going to another session of physical therapy (with occupational therapy starting shortly) where he has, so far, been surprising the "experts." To learn more about what my dad has been going through, go here: "Thankfully, This Doesn't Concern My Dad--Much!" This will also link you to what too many less fortunate people are going through. LET'S FACE SOME SCARY FACTS: There are actually people out there who would like to keep leading us down a slippery slope to where it becomes easier and easier to get away with killing sick people. And after that? How about killing people who just don't meet up to the standards of society (according to those in power who decide what that might be). It has happened in Nazi Germany--and, if we aren't vigilant, it can happen here just as well. Sadly, to some degree, it already has--AND IGNORING THE SITUATION WON'T MAKE IT GO AWAY!!! Please discuss this in my forum:
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