tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230277033516913627.post4864341391997194394..comments2016-07-15T22:11:12.142-07:00Comments on Keeping Jesus Weird: "If I die before I wake ..."John Elfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11253042838539348496noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230277033516913627.post-32853648974253387792010-11-16T20:12:22.564-08:002010-11-16T20:12:22.564-08:00It's certainly a difficult call. My decision ...It's certainly a difficult call. My decision is specifically in relation to Alzheimer's and perhaps I should have been clearer about that in the blog. So far as I'm aware, it's incurable and even with the available meds, it takes a pretty predictable path. As a pastor, I've watched too many good folks become walking ghosts, too many spouses overwrought with guilt and hurt--visit or not visit.John Elfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11253042838539348496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230277033516913627.post-56356084569178454282010-11-15T21:54:39.697-08:002010-11-15T21:54:39.697-08:00I'd say that you can't honor life if you a...I'd say that you can't honor life if you are dead. If I face an incurable disease I would not like to have the option to die (unless I'm 85 or something). I've heard a lot of stories of people who has recovered from incurable diseases and then lived good lives. Even of people who don't recover but finds something meaningful to do. Like this one guy that is totaly paralized, exept for some muscle in his face and he writes books. That is what I call to honor life.Mattias Larssonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4230277033516913627.post-45232093447187565842010-11-13T11:39:06.828-08:002010-11-13T11:39:06.828-08:00Thanks for the post. My wife and I have had a cle...Thanks for the post. My wife and I have had a clear dialogue, and are encouraging others in the family to be explicit. I wouldn't presume to tell anyone what to do, but please: I don't want heroic measures prolonguing my life at the end of tubes and wires like some pathetic fly in a spider's web. If I can't live without intervention let God take me. Anything else from my family is possibly cruel and heartless; and who can know what it feels like inside the motionless silent body trapped on the margins of life & death?Leslie Barczanoreply@blogger.com