You are on life support, what would you want a loved one to do about it?

It would depend on the prognosis. If I could have the same quality of life as before then I would be happy to be left on it for a while. If the prognosis was that it was only the life support machine that was keeping me alive, or that my quality of life would be severely poor then I would want them to accept that the person I was had already died, and let me move on peacefully with those I love around me.

Terminate my butt with extreme prejudice.

Switch the damn thing off I don't want to be anyones burden

bring me some weed so i can smoke!

unplug me asap

Well, if I was expected to not recover, I would want them to pull the plug.

Donate my organs, and let me go peacefully!

Trip over the cord on the way out.

DONT pull the plug!!! No matter what. And hook me up with headphones playing The Rolling Stones.

honor my wishes about dying and living.

Unplug me - Immediately!

depends what my chances are! Having worked in ITU I can tell you people are intubated and ventilated for many different reasons and many do make it and become 100% well again after recovery.

Frankly, I can't say they should pull the plug. While I don't want to be a burden, at the same time I feel like having to sign the release to kill me would be a huge weight on my next of kin's shoulders for the rest of their life.

I would want my loved ones to ask the doctors what my prognosis was--could I recover?

If the chances were fairly good I would want them to continue to keep me on life support as long as there was a reasonable chance for recovery.

If not I would want them to pull the plug as soon as they could.

And I would want my organs donated.

let me goooooo...

That is a touchy subject. If I had no chance of ever living a normal life, I would want them to pull the plug. If I am on life support due to an accident, I would hope they leave me on long enough at least to tell what my prognosis will be!!! I only want to live as long as I am physically able to care for myself. To take away from the quality of someone else life to care for me would be unthinkable. That is just my personal oppinion though...

If the medical tests say that I am dead (must be in black and white as in a paper report) then have the hospital staff pull the plug and let me go. I have worked in nursing homes for over 33 years and seen way to many families request heroics on someone who has no quality of life. Not me.................do me a favor and pull the plug please.

don't unplug me! because i know someone who they said was brain dead and they best thing to do was turn off the machine and he didn't and now she is not brain dead and there is nothing wrong with her she is a normal healthy person. drs aren't always right

wait a few months to see and check if there is nothing anyone can do and they had done everything possible then let me go.
or just let me go so i dont have to die twice.

I just would like them to
give their best in accepting the reality..
either i will die soon or
i will be dead later
but still the one
unavoidable fact is that
i will die.. only God can tell when

If I'm on life support to help me recover from injuries then I would want my family to maintain the life support as long as I had a reasonable chance of recovering.

If I was on life support as the result of some sort of disease or debilitating injury for which I would be unlikely to recover and lead any semblance of a normal life, I would want the life support withdrawn.

Finally, I would not want to be put on life support to delay my imminent death. In fact, if I was in the final stages of a terminal disease, I would prefer a STRONG dose of morphine to make me "comfortable".

Under no circumstances would I want my family keep me alive if doctors determined I was in a persistent vegetative state.

I would want to be taken off the life support. I don't want my loved one to suffer for me. If it's time for me to go then let it be. And let my love one go on with his life and continue his journey as I will continue mine.

I was actually on life support for eleven days and not expected to recover.

I wouldn't want to be kept alive in that manner indefinately, but the thought that I could have been unplugged in that time is a bit chilling to me now.

I don't really have an answer. If I was to find myself in that situation again, I would say pull it. It took years of difficult work to recover the first time and I simply don't have the energy to go through that again.

Depends... if the machine is there to stabilise my condition, say after an accident, and that my chances of surviving is 9/10, then they'd better keep it turned on. And if i'm certified by the doctor to be brain-dead, by all means, pull the plug immediately.
Question now is...what would u do if the situation is reversed?

to shut the f up and disconnect the machine

If there was no chance of recovering and living a decent life then pull the plug.

turn off the machine immediately.

I was on life support last year, I have pretty much made a full recovery. The Docs didnt know if I was gonna make it from one hour to the next. So in my opinion leave the dam thing on.

:-)

Turn it off, my life isn't really that great, i would probably commit suicide soon after, give the bed to someone who really needs it

unplug the life support already!

I would want to stay alive on life support until i got to the point that even if i come out of it, i'd be a vegetable. if i can still function after coming around, then why would you kill me!? so until i'm useless, i'd like to stay on life support, and i've told that to everyone so no fights or disputes about it. i like to live, but if my life would be horrible and useless, then i'd rather just die than make everyone stop and take care of me.