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Signing a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance is allowing your family and friends the peace of mind that they are doing what it is that you would wish them to do if you could speak to them in this situation. In no way is it a passive form of suicide.

Signing a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance says to your family and friends that you want to die naturally when it is your time and to not be kept alive in a false state of suspended animation.

Signing a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance takes the burden off the people you love at a horribly painful time in their lives when they don't need legal issues to deal with.

Signing a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance and leaving instructions for organ donation gives someone who has a chance to live that chance without pause.

Signing a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance does not mean do not treat. If you are in a life threatening accident you will be treated as anyone else would be up to no heroic measures. You will still be treated as any other patient would be in the same situation with the exception of life support machines.

Signing a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance does not mean anyone will hunt you down and take your organs.

Everyone has to die, signing a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance doesn't mean it has to be now.

If you are to suffer a major trauma and have not signed a Do Not Resuscitate order in advance, would you want to lay in a hospital bed for seventeen years on life support aware of your surroundings but unable to communicate? Would you want this for anyone you love?

Who are we to decide that it is not our time to die and that since we have made the machines to prolong life and stave off death indefinitely that we have the right to do so or to impose our will onto another human being?

Did any one of us sign a contract to be born? Why is it that we need to sign a contract to be allowed to die when our time comes?

Signing a Resuscitate order in advance should be the norm and not the other way around. If we are to defy nature we should have permission slips, not the other way around.

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