October 12, 2007

• If you were brain dead, would you want to be kept alive by a ventilator? Why or why not?

  If I were brain dead I wouldn’t have much say in the matter I’d imagine.  But being me right now not at all brain dead I would say the only way I would allow myself to be kept alive if I were to become brain dead in the future is if I were so incredibly rich that I could ensure that my being kept alive causes no harm or hardship to anyone else alive or yet to live. In other words I’d have to own all the equipment and resources being used to keep me alive and I would have had to have paid to have it built specifically for me.  And a good chunk of the rest of my fortune would have to go toward buying medical equipment and resources for others who might need it so as to absolve my guilt over taking up space and energy with my dead lifeless body.  This, of course, after enough of my fortune has been used to completely setup everyone I ever cared about for life.

  This is an unlikely scenario. So yeah, I’d say just figure on pulling the plug on me.

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