Club 30's "Kill The Boredom Demon" Jive Pad, 73rd Edition
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
February liao... how to save enough to eat like a
when I return? 
Febuary ONLY.
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Originally posted by elindra:
I think that would be my loved one to decideIf there is a form when you are well and of sound mind that you want to live even if you become a vegetable, I will respect his/her wish
I will also respect his/her wish if he/she wants to be 'put down'
It is really not for us to decide but the said person
That is why I feel that we should have a form, like the organ donation form.
In Singapore, besides, the Organ Donation Form, which by the way, one or one's loved ones can revoke at the last minute, there is an Advanced Medical Directive form too where you may sign to state that should all other medical help fail to revive you, you do not wish to be kept alive on a ventilator.
Advance Medical Directive Act
Introduction to AMD Act
An Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document that you sign in advance to inform the doctor treating you (in the event you become terminally ill and unconscious) that you do not want any extraordinary life-sustaining treatment 1 to be used to prolong your life.
Making an AMD is a voluntary decision. It is entirely up to you whether you wish to make one. In fact, it is a criminal offence for any person to force you to make one against your will.
New advances in medical knowledge and technology create new choices for both patients and health care providers. Some of these choices raise new ethical and legal issues.
One issue is that modern medical technology can technically prolong life in the final stages of a terminal illness2. However, it cannot stop the dying process. In such situations, further medical intervention would be medically ineffective, and a decision has to be made whether to withdraw such futile medical intervention. Some terminally ill persons who are unable to express their wishes at that time, may want to be spared further suffering and be allowed to die naturally, in peace and with dignity.
The law in Singapore allows Singaporeans who wish to make an advance medical directive to do so. The AMD Act was passed in Parliament in May 1996.
1 "Extraordinary life-sustaining treatment" is any medical treatment which serves only to prolong the process of dying for terminally ill patients but does not cure the illness. An example is the respirator that is connected to a patient to assist him/her to breathe. It serves only to artificially prolong the life of a terminally ill patient.
2 "Terminal illness" is defined in the Act as an incurable condition caused by injury or disease from which there is no reasonable prospect of a temporary or permanent recovery. For such a condition, death is imminent even if extraordinary life-sustaining measures were used. These measures would only serve to postpone the moment of death for the patient. -
Originally posted by Scania L113 lover:
Febuary ONLY.I have so many huge bills coming up...
Maybe, I have to postpone my trip afterall...
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
In Singapore, besides, the Organ Donation Form, which by the way, one or one's loved ones can revoke at the last minute, there is an Advanced Medical Directive form too where you may sign to state that should all other medical help fail to revive you, you do not wish to be kept alive on a ventilator.
Advance Medical Directive Act
Introduction to AMD Act
An Advance Medical Directive (AMD) is a legal document that you sign in advance to inform the doctor treating you (in the event you become terminally ill and unconscious) that you do not want any extraordinary life-sustaining treatment 1 to be used to prolong your life.
Making an AMD is a voluntary decision. It is entirely up to you whether you wish to make one. In fact, it is a criminal offence for any person to force you to make one against your will.
New advances in medical knowledge and technology create new choices for both patients and health care providers. Some of these choices raise new ethical and legal issues.
One issue is that modern medical technology can technically prolong life in the final stages of a terminal illness2. However, it cannot stop the dying process. In such situations, further medical intervention would be medically ineffective, and a decision has to be made whether to withdraw such futile medical intervention. Some terminally ill persons who are unable to express their wishes at that time, may want to be spared further suffering and be allowed to die naturally, in peace and with dignity.
The law in Singapore allows Singaporeans who wish to make an advance medical directive to do so. The AMD Act was passed in Parliament in May 1996.1 "Extraordinary life-sustaining treatment" is any medical treatment which serves only to prolong the process of dying for terminally ill patients but does not cure the illness. An example is the respirator that is connected to a patient to assist him/her to breathe. It serves only to artificially prolong the life of a terminally ill patient.
2 "Terminal illness" is defined in the Act as an incurable condition caused by injury or disease from which there is no reasonable prospect of a temporary or permanent recovery. For such a condition, death is imminent even if extraordinary life-sustaining measures were used. These measures would only serve to postpone the moment of death for the patient.Oh I didn't know that
But if you are a vegetable you dont' need to be on a ventilator right
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
I have so many huge bills coming up...
Maybe, I have to postpone my trip afterall...
Don't think so much now.. -
Originally posted by Scania L113 lover:
Don't think so much now..Eh... if don't think so much, then money will just drop on my lap and pay for my trip back?
I guess die-die had better go back this time round because don't know when my next trip shall be. Once I embark on my course, my schedule is no longer mine to play with.
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Originally posted by elindra:
Oh I didn't know that
But if you are a vegetable you dont' need to be on a ventilator right
There are non-ventilated vegetables, and ventilated vegetables.
Ventilated vegetables usually have a much shorter lifespan. Doctors will usually try to wean patients off the ventilator after a period of time, afterwhich, other methods of providing oxygenation will be used, and if the patient cannot adapt to those other methods, ie. BIPAP machines, Oxygen Masks and Nasal Prongs, then the patient will slowly fade away. -
Originally posted by elindra:
Oh I didn't know that
But if you are a vegetable you dont' need to be on a ventilator right
there are vegetables which do not need ventilators..
look at SC..
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Originally posted by the Bear:
there are vegetables which do not need ventilators..
look at SC..
That one is hopeless. Worse than vegetable. -
Originally posted by the Bear:
there are vegetables which do not need ventilators..
look at SC..
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Eh... if don't think so much, then money will just drop on my lap and pay for my trip back?
I guess die-die had better go back this time round because don't know when my next trip shall be. Once I embark on my course, my schedule is no longer mine to play with.
You gonna bring Mr Lawless back?
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Originally posted by Scania L113 lover:
You gonna bring Mr Lawless back?
Mr Lawless is not my boyfriend...
*whimpers...Besides, if I bring an ang moh home, I think my paternal grandma might be shocked!
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Originally posted by Rhonda:
Mr Lawless is not my boyfriend...
*whimpers...Besides, if I bring an ang moh home, I think my paternal grandma might be shocked!
If he's not yours, then make it yours lor. -
Originally posted by Scania L113 lover:
If he's not yours, then make it yours lor."Make IT yours..." ?!! What the... he's a person, not a thing leh!
Lawless reminds me of my bro - he has nothing much to say. Ask him questions, you get monosyllable answers or staid replies, nothing more.
I'd rather endure a dental extraction than have a boyfriend like that. -
Originally posted by Rhonda:
"Make IT yours..." ?!! What the... he's a person, not a thing leh!
Lawless reminds me of my bro - he has nothing much to say. Ask him questions, you get monosyllable answers or staid replies, nothing more.
I'd rather endure a dental extraction than have a boyfriend like that.Maybe he's dumbstruck my a beauty like you leh?
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Originally posted by the Bear:
there are vegetables which do not need ventilators..
look at SC..
Those are not vegetables
Vegetables are still aware of their surroundings but can't move or talk
I believe they can still think
Those are kinda like amoebas, wait a min! Amoebas have more cells than they do!!!
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Originally posted by tare:
*surface out of files for air*
i knew this would happened >.< 4.5 days of break and i have tons of stuffs to attend to...
on the side note, i still don't know wat to get for
for vday.. die liao lah... 
Sigh..... not sure whether I can buy anything for the FS....
*me opens wallet*
*moth flies out*
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I'm on duty for Valentine's, so can kiss worries goodbye.
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Originally posted by fudgester:
Sigh..... not sure whether I can buy anything for the FS....
*me opens wallet*
*moth flies out*
Why don't you make her something instead?Make her a card then or write her a poem
It's much more meaningful
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Originally posted by Scania L113 lover:
Maybe he's dumbstruck my a beauty like you leh?
*splutters... coughs... chokes...OK, I think you almost killed a few people in here today!
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Originally posted by elindra:
Those are not vegetables
Vegetables are still aware of their surroundings but can't move or talk
I believe they can still think
Those are kinda like amoebas, wait a min! Amoebas have more cells than they do!!!
Oooh!! Evil! Very eeeeeevil!!!
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Originally posted by Rhonda: *splutters... coughs... chokes...
OK, I think you almost killed a few people in here today!
Wah. Got so jialat meh? Give you a bit of push you want to die already? -
I keep eating this Japanese Plum candy
I cannot stop @@
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Originally posted by elindra:
Why don't you make her something instead?Make her a card then or write her a poem
It's much more meaningful
fudgy, and me took part in MPC...now i even more stressed
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harros all..........