“1. If I should remain in a persistent vegetative state for more than fifteen years, I would like someone to turn off the TV.”

—  Paul Rudnick

"My Living Will," http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/25/my-living-will The New Yorker (25 April 2005)

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