I don't know if this has been posted already. I just received it as an email from my mother-in-law and LOVED it!
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
I, being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by some ungodly, unholy artificial means. When my number comes up, then it's my turn to go. Under no circumstances should my untimely fate be put in the hands of a bunch of peckerhead politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to sit up and ask for a big piece of chocolate, or a good ice cold beer, it should then and only then, be presumed that I won't do so ever again. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my spouse, children and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes and call it a day.
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Under no circumstances shall the members of the Legislature enact a special law to keep me on life-support machinery. It is my wish that these boneheads mind their own damn business, and pay attention instead to the health, education and future of the millions of Americans who aren't in a permanent coma and who nonetheless may be in need of nourishment.
Under no circumstances shall any politicians butt their noses into my case. I don't care how many fundamentalist votes they're trying to scrounge for their run for the Presidency in 2008, it is my wish that they play politics with someone else's life and leave me the hell alone to die in peace. I couldn't care less if a hundred and ten religious zealots send emails to legislators in which they pretend to care about me. I don't know these people, and I certainly haven't authorized them to preach and/or crusade on my behalf. They should mind their own damn business, too. If any of my family go against my wishes, and turns my case into a political cause, I do hereby solemnly promise to come back from the grave and make his or her existence a living hell.
(From the moment I read "peckerhead politicians," my day was MADE!)