LIVING WILL
I, Susan K. Buggeln, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means, especially for years and years with no hope of recovery. And whatever you do, do NOT assume a body twitch or a groan means I can see, hear, think or rationalize for myself. Let my doctors make that determination. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of morally and ethically challenged politicians who couldn't pass a ninth-grade biology test if their lives depended on it.
If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for a fountain Coke and some plain M & M's, it should be presumed that I won't ever get better. When such a determination is reached by my physicians, I hereby instruct Chris, Brandon and Brady and my attending physician to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day. If I can't drink or swallow on my own, anything else is artificially keeping me alive. Don't prolong my life and keep me in misery because YOU can't let go.
Under no circumstances shall the hypocritical members of the Legislature (State or Federal) enact a special law to keep me on life-support machinery and keep me locked in my pain and suffering. It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own business, and let me die with dignity, without having my name and life become a circus.
I urge those same politicians to pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of Americans who aren't in a permanent coma and who have been waiting for years for some relief from high health costs and higher prescription bills, while they look the other way, and accept large donations from pharmaceutical companies to fill their campaign chests. Under no circumstances shall any politicians butt into my directives or my personal life.
I don't care how many fundamentalist votes they're trying to scrounge for their run for the presidency or any other political office; it is my wish that they play politics with someone else's life and leave me alone to die in peace with some shred of dignity. I couldn't care less if a hundred religious zealots send e-mails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me or insist on pushing their own righteous agenda. I don't know these people, and I certainly haven't authorized them to preach and crusade and prey on my behalf. They prey on... instead of praying for. They should mind their own business.
If any of my family goes against my wishes and turns my case into a political cause, an emotional circus, a religious crusade, ANY agenda against my wishes, I hereby promise to come back from the grave and make his or her existence a living hell.
April 05, 2005
Suzi Buggeln.
