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To: exDemMom
As I've posted on another thread IT'S BECOMING CRYSTAL CLEAR THAT A LIVING WILL CAN BE A RECIPE FOR INVOLUNTARY SUBMISSION TO THE INTERPRETATIONS OF MEDICAL STAFF ON HAND. Better to have a signed medical surrogate document specifying your medical proxy and your exact wishes or a durable medical power of attorney document filled out IN DETAIL naming your medical proxy (whom you informed in depth of your choices) .. or you can GO TO National Right to Life Site

You can download their WILL TO LIVE which they now have for most states.

518 posted on 04/01/2005 11:48:27 PM PST by STARWISE (PLEASE .... PRAY FOR TERRI AND HER FAMILY. 'WHERE THERE'S LIFE THERE'S HOPE!")
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To: STARWISE

I already followed your link to the "will to live" site from another thread. It's just a guideline, basically, to which I would make certain changes. For instance, I would put in there the fact that, under no circumstances, will I receive an organ transplant from a deceased donor, even if refusing such means I will die. But any other medical means of supporting my life, I want.

Our legal representative told me that there is a thing called a springing power of attorney that only goes into effect if something should happen.

Rush said that he has put into his living will a provision that anyone who decides to "pull the tube" on him will receive NONE of his estate. I've been trying to think of a way to word such a provision myself. One of the dangers of "assisted suicide" is that the kids/grandkids who are looking at their inheritance getting used up by their parent's/grandparent's care will pressure dear Mom or Grandpa into "suiciding" as a means of getting that money. I think a provision that there is no inheritance in the case of any non-natural death would do a lot to reduce those pressures. There are plenty of charities that would love to be included in people's wills.


596 posted on 04/02/2005 7:21:00 AM PST by exDemMom (Death is beautiful, to those who hate their own lives.)
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