Would you respect your siblings wishes to not pull the plug?

I would hope if my parents had that kind of strong feelings they would have had a power of attorney for health care drawn up and notarized, and also had final directives on file in a lawyers care. I know that begs the question, but unless those things are met, I would have no more say so than my siblings about these issues. I would hope they had discussed this with their physicians as well.

That's is one of the tougest decisions to make. The saying is, if u love person dearly than u let them go.

That's a tough choice. But if I knew for sure my parent didn't want to be on life support, I would have a talk with my sibling and try to put my feelings across too. I respect my siblings' wishes and hope they respect mine too. So, after the talk we would come to a joint decision. But if my sibling still wishes not to pull the plug and manages to convince me, I'd respect their decision.

December for me is a hard month because it is the month we lost my mother in. She passed away 12/1999. My mom said she didn't want her body to go and still be mentally alert nor did she want to be physically fit and her mind go she just wanted to go. We took my mom in on a Wednesday night and she passed away about 36 hours later. You may say ummm how does that go with my question well here it goes. My sister went home to shower and get her kids off to school and or taken care off and me and my aunt stayed at the hospital. My mom had a test (scoped her) and never came out of it. She was losing blood pint after pint was being pumped in her it was like they turned on a faucet. There were other visitors that came to see her and show support so I pulled my aunt out of the room and told her my mom would be very upset if we allowed them to keep pumping all this blood in her and it just leaving her body when there might be some one esle it could help. She agreed. It was a very hard thing. I called my sister and told her she needed to come back we were stopping the blood and the breathing machine. It was the hardest thing in my life I had to do

If you knew how? If its in writing? If they told you? If you just assumed you knew them best? How many siblings? How long are they on life support? I don't believe in black and white answers and solutions, I think you have to know the circumstances and take a warm blooded humane solution to things.

I would respect whatever wishes they had expressed. We often hear about respecting someone's wish to have the plug pulled. Well, I'd respect someone's right to NOT have the plug pulled. Of course, they'd have to have made their desires clear to me. If there were no living will, then I'd have to rely on conversations my sibling had had with me or others about this topic.