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How long do you want to die? Should your final illness and suffering last 3 hours, 3 days, 3 months? What if your level of pain were 3, 7, or 10? How long if the level of suffering for your family were 3, 7, 0r 10? You might plot these on a graph.

:- Doug.

When it comes to end of life caring for one another, let us preempt the culture.

:- Doug.

Every time you and your wife interact, you are a different you, she a different she-she and you a different he-he.

:- Doug.

Will I be relevant to me?
A year or two from now?
A step or two down my road?

:- Doug.

Her way—what are her ways? How can we honor that when she’s dying?

:- Doug.

Is asking What would Dad want a way of making our decision easier? Yes, and that is not bad. But sometimes we need to think harder and more deeply for ourselves—and them. What is a good child to do?

:- Doug.

My family will do the right thing. But how will they know? Unless I tell them?

:- Doug.

Why is ventilator hell?

:- Doug.

How could a living creator do a one time and done act—and stop creating? Could an eternal creator stop?

:- Doug.