[nicmarlo]

I just got off the phone with my mom, she's retired and said she would be happy to make some phone calls from the contact numbers we get. I shared some of the vignettes posted on here with her and she is willing to get a couple of her friends to make calls too.

Very good. And make sure she also understands that it's obvious that having a Living Will is NOT going to ensure that her wishes are followed.

It has been suggested that people use the "Will to Live" instead. Isn't this ridiculous? You now have to have it in WRITING that you want to live. If you don't have it in writing, that's an excuse to kill you. If you have a living will that doesn't cover every single situaton, spelled out, they'll use any ambiguity to kill you. Of course, by necessity, it is ambiguous, as none of us can read minds and know what illness/disability will befall us in the future; we don't know how laws will be changed after we can no longer speak for ourselves and then have laws applied to us retroactively; we don't know if the "reasonable person" standard will be met by a judge whose reasonableness is unreasonable.....it's absurd.

[ExPatInFrance]

nic,

Can you please call the attorney and find out who he is representing?

Schmelvin can give you the phone number, it might be in Post#106 or Bykerbayb's Post #146.

I gotta feel that you would be the right person to get through and fid out.

We dont' ahve much time here, Mae has been starving for is it 2 weeks(?) and she only got a bit of fluids when the brother and sister found out that the granddaughter did not have Medical Power of Attorney.

[mother22wife21]

Thank You! I have been a big proponent of the 'living will' in the past, but I'm begining to see the error of my ways.

They know, I talk to her, she talks to them. :)

[Cboldt]

It has been suggested that people use the "Will to Live" instead. Isn't this ridiculous? You now have to have it in WRITING that you want to live.

In legal parlance, that is referred to as "shifting the burden."