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Old 02-27-2014, 06:30 PM
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The "spirit" of a living will as I understand it is to not keep a person alive who is in a "vegetable state". Reviving someone who has had an immediate heart attack is something entirely different.

That is why I have a living will (not to be kept alive as a vegetable for weeks) but being revived following a heart attack and hopefully have recovery I view as something different.

A living will keeps you off artifical life support systems for weeks and weeks. A Defibrillator is not an artificial life support machine.
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