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To: Chickensoup

I don’t think you are under any obligation to use their form. Check out Five Wishes - here is the wiki link & there are links there:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Wishes

A lot of hospices recommend/use it and an ombudsman suggested it to me and gave me copies for someone I was caring for who was terminal.

Here’s one link to the form:
http://positivehealthcare.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Five-Wishes-for-Website_PHP.pdf

Per the Wiki link:
According to analysis by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging, Five Wishes currently meets the legal requirements for an advance directive in the following 42 states [SEE list at wiki link] and the District of Columbia. In the remaining 8 states, (Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Utah) a statutory form is required, and one must attach the state document if one wishes to use the Five Wishes document as a guide.


6 posted on 12/07/2015 4:51:55 PM PST by Qiviut (Stand up for Jesus, ye soldiers of the cross; lift high his royal banner, it must not loss)
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To: Qiviut

That is the one the hospital here uses.


9 posted on 12/07/2015 4:55:30 PM PST by ozaukeemom (All the special snowflakes still make an ordinary snowball.)
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To: Qiviut

I think that there are other forms, I have my own lawyer drawn up document

However the unthinking and innocent may end up using this form, that is being pushed by my primary care via obamacare.


15 posted on 12/07/2015 5:46:02 PM PST by Chickensoup (“If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.” Jef)
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