Sounds like they are making a “LIVING WILL” a matter of law...IOW....like insurance, you MUST HAVE IT.....well....guess what....lots of people who are supposed to have car insurance (illegals????) do NOT have it....
This is all getting crazy
>Sounds like they are making a “LIVING WILL” a matter of law...IOW....like insurance, you MUST HAVE IT<
As has been discussed on this forum in the past, you can use a living will to make it plain you want your life preserved, should you be rendered unconscious or too senile to state your desires.
Living wills aren’t automatically DNR orders.
Yes they are making a living will mandatory, as part of that they are requiring a minimum of once every 5 years to revisit your “choices”, also in the case of a change in your medical outlook such as a diagnosis of something serious.
Other than the unconstitutional bullcrap of this whole thing- what it also does is have the government, via your doctor, keep questioning decisions you have made regards your long term care. So a decision I make when I am 45 or 50, they are going to keep revisiting that decision every 5 years perhaps until I’m foggy enough to get talked into what they all think is “best” for me.
It also looks like there is to be a “healthcare proxy” decision maker at some point I’ll have to go back and read that part again.
Yes they are making a living will mandatory, as part of that they are requiring a minimum of once every 5 years to revisit your “choices”, also in the case of a change in your medical outlook such as a diagnosis of something serious.
Other than the unconstitutional bullcrap of this whole thing- what it also does is have the government, via your doctor, keep questioning decisions you have made regards your long term care. So a decision I make when I am 45 or 50, they are going to keep revisiting that decision every 5 years perhaps until I’m foggy enough to get talked into what they all think is “best” for me.
It also looks like there is to be a “healthcare proxy” decision maker at some point I’ll have to go back and read that part again.
In NYS, if you are hospitalized you are hounded by the social worker to sign the DNR orders (do not resuscitate). You could be hanging off the bed but they want to know immediately if you are not conscious what to do. What is being recounted in the article is indeed a living will of sorts, only now it will be universal.