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on wednesday, i am to give a talk to our lgst. area hospice. while they say they only want me to talk about my personal experiences w/ pd...i have been thinking quite alot about end of life issues. couple this with the story of Terri Schiavo, the young woman in Florida who is in the middle of a huge legal debate over removing her feeding tube and i feel that it might be time to face some unsavory issues. would you be so kind as to help me in an unscientific poll? names will be kept completely anonomous. 1) do you have a living will? 2) on a scale of 1-10 (10 bbeing very important), how important do you consider having a living will to be?? 3) when do you consider to be the natural end of life?? 4) would you like to be kept alive by feeding tubes and breathing tubes? 5) what is the governments role in this issue (Gov. Jeb Bush ordered her feeding tube re-inserted)??? 6) on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being very religious/spiritual), how religious/ spiritual do you consider yourslef to be? -- Joan E. Blessington Snyder 51/13 http://www.pwnkle.com/jes/jes_web/index.htm <[log in to unmask]> "Hang tough...........no way through it but to do it." Chris-in-the-Morning (Northern Exposure) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn