The New Type of Living Will

The Five Wishes:

1. I would like for my mother to make care decisions for me when I can't. However, if not possible, then I leave my sisters in charge because no one knows me better.


2. I would like for all possible attempts to save my live made, but do not wish to stay on a life-support machine if there is absolutely no hope for me making a full or decent recovery.


3. I wish to be very comfortable during my last stages. If, I am leaving this world I want all of my reasonable demands met.


4. I want people to treat me as a person still, and I don't want a lot of crying going on around me. It's okay to reflect on the past, but make it a joyous thing...not a mournful event.


5. I would want my mother to know that my father(deceased) and her did an awsome job raising us, she's my role model, and I was grateful for having understanding and loving parents. As for my sisters, I love them no matter what disagreements we may have had, I love their children and hope I wasn't too bad of a role model!lol I would like for my brother-in-law to know he's the big brother I never had and wanted my older male cousins to be(instead of trying to be my dad figures). To all other family members and three real friends, I love them and wouldn't trade them for the world.

Bargaining

There are five stages of dying. They are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The most interesting is bargaining. During this stage, one is aware of their illness and if religious, they begin to bargain with GOD. They make a lot of promises about things they will begin to do and things they will no longer do. The interesting or funny part is that most of the time they are making false promises, because if they do start to get well the bargaining becomes an unfair deal.

If one believes that God can help or save them....then why go back on your word and betray HIM?

Wikipedia:

In English, death is often given the name the "Grim Reaper" and shown as a skeletal figure carrying a large scythe and clothed in a black cloak with a hood.

In Hindu scriptures the lord of death is called Yama, or Yamaraj (literally "the lord of death"). Yamaraj rides a black buffalo and carries a rope lasso to carry the soul back to his abode called "Yamalok".

Old Slavic tribes viewed Death as a woman in white clothes, with a never-fading green sprout in her hand. The touch of the sprout would put a human to an everlasting sleep.

Why do we give death a name, or character? Why are some cultures' personification of death "sweet" and others "bitter"? What do you consider death to be?