It's very important that you have a medical directive and decide now what you want
I’m California and you are advised at the hospital and required to sign documents at time of admissions regarding this at the hospital regardless of a will. Many people with their will including myself have a medical directive and a DNR (Do not resuscitate).
I was thinking about this last night and have a call into my estate attorney. Going on a ventilator falls into this domain. I haven’t decided yet what I want to do, although I am leaning towards leaving my DNR in place and knowing and accepting that this means that if I should get infected, that I will choose to not be on a ventilator or only for a limited time period and allow myself to die and give that ventilator to a younger and healthier person.
You may have a different desire and it’s important to think about this and consult an attorney and make appropriate instructions.
Meanwhile please watch this video that was filmed in the ICU and hospital in Bergamo Italy this week so you understand more about what this virus does to the lungs and what is involved in going on a ventilator and the required care, included being “turned” over. Italy isn’t a 3rd world country with shitty medical care. I have twice in my life had to be in an Italian hospital and was always impressed by the care - in my opinion it was far better than I ever saw in most US hospitals.
It’s the video in the link below. A friend in Sweden who is an Anesthesiologist sent this to me and it’s very very sobering. Also because we don’t have currently even as close to as many ventilators that Italy has per person and definitely not enough.
https://omni.se/inifran-krisens-centrum-aldrig-varit-sa-stressad/a/wPQMJM
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