Yeah, forget any counseling. After all your family should be the ones to have to GUESS what you wanted should you lapse into a coma. Never mind having a discussion where a doctor could give you some education on the subject.

Wake up and smell the damn roses. There's another topic on here about how 'cruel' Medicare is for not being able to afford a particular procedure for someone who will die without it. Well, quite frankly, I do NOT want to be a burden to my family and I've let them know it. I watched my grandmother waste away from progressive strokes for fove years after doctors disobeyed her DNR orders after a heart attack.

It just seems to always come down to "who's ox is being gored?" because of our attitudes and taboos concerning death.