Posted on 07/12/2014 12:42:13 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
You've got to get your beliefs, preferences and directives in writing, AND! AND! AND! you've got to have somebody --- your spouse, your oldest child, your brother or whoever --- who really understands what you want, to be there to advocate for you. As important as a document is, a document won't speak up for you and bang its fist on the Clinical Manager's desk when there's a dang medical ethicist saying your life is meaningless, and a hospital administrator who wants to free up a bed.
My personal recommendation is to go HERE and click on your state and evaluate for yourself what you want when you're too weak to be as communicative or as assertive-as-you-wanna-be.
Get it in writing, and let your nearest and dearest know.
Very good advice Mrs. D. I know who will get my medical proxy, a very good friend who truly embodies the American value of “I might not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”.
She understands me and would never, in a thousand years, substitute her own judgement for what, in her best understanding, would be mine.
And, she’d be more than willing to pound on a desk if necessary, and sadly it often is.
....And one of the factors of why it will come under attack more and more as time goes on. God Bless the Holy Faith.
Pray not only for the conversion of ALL to Christ, including us, but for the full unity of Christian believers!
THAT is a WONderful prayer!
Will do.
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