Posted on 04/10/2011 5:35:48 AM PDT by BykrBayb
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Grand Junction proclaimed Monday as National Health Care Decisions Day, urging all citizens to make their health care wishes known through advance care planning for managing a serious illness, or end-of-life care.
Living wills and advance directives are documents that spell out your wishes if you should become incapacitated due to a medical crisis.
Millions of people began filling out living wills and advance directives after the 1976 Supreme Court case of Karen Ann Quinlan, whose parents battled with hospital staff who sought to keep Quinlan alive through artificial means, even though she had lapsed into a vegetative state and doctors had determined she would never recover. The Supreme Court eventually ruled in the parents favor, who said they wanted Karen to die with “grace and dignity.”
People who make their wishes known in advance can avoid situations like Quinlan's, and that of another woman — Terri Schiavo — who suffered a cardiac arrest, that led to a vegetative state lasting 15 years before her mechanical life support system was removed.
The Mesa County Advance Care Planning Task Force, a group of local organizations, is offering “Medical Decision Making in Colorado” workshops on how to plan for end-of-life care, Thursday and Saturday, April 14 and 16. The sessions are free.
The sessions will include communicating end-of-life wishes to loved ones, and how to appoint a health care power of attorney. There will also be new information regarding living wills and other advance directive documents.
St. Mary's Hospital is hosting Thursday's session, and Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado will host the Saturday workshop. Light refreshments will be provided.
Limited seating is available and reservations are required by calling Western Colorado 2-1-1.
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What: Advance Care Planning Session - hosted by St. Mary's Hospital and Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado
When and Where: April 14 - St. Mary's Saccomanno Education Center, 2635 7th St. April 16 - Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado, 3090 N. 12th St. Unit B, Room 102 Both sessions are 9-11 a.m.
Cost: Free
Info: Register before April 12 by calling Western Colorado 2-1-1
Hi, I'm Abraham Lincoln's grand father. My claim is about as valid as yours.
But okay, you must live in the Central time zone. My mistake.
So I've heard. On this very thread, come to think of it. All us conservatives are just a bunch of uneducated hicks.
So you’ve had a lot of jobs. Am I supposed to swoon now?
This is simply disgusting.
Welcome to the thread. There’s only a couple trolls this time.
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I'm surprised then that you've deigned to grace us with your presence.
Keep going. That one’s boring. The smartest liberal in the world is here!
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"Bioethicist" is simply a euphemism for "death monger". BykrBayb is pro-life.
Thank you, GB.
Still, promoting the pro-death agenda cannot ever be accepted.
Thanks, but I don’t recall anyone on this thread asking for your resume.
That’s the one. And he calls himself an educated conservative, as if that’s a rarity (and as if he really is). I mean you’ve got the first sort of main stream Conservative American, who’s articulate and bright and clean.
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Yes, I saw that. We're all too limited to really discuss this issue with him. I wonder why he's been on FR for so long?
I really mean that.
How demeaning for him to associate with those on this site. Ah, well. I doubt that we can ever hope to understand such a rarified being.
Thanks for your input.
I’m still waiting for you to back up your position that millions of people rushed out to sign away their right to life in the wake of the removal of Karen Anne Quinlan’s respirator. Since you have the time to post now, go ahead.
Apology accepted.
That's not the problem. The problem is that the populists masquerading as conservatives hate educated people and celebrate their own ignorance.
Its simple. You all are irritated that I have living will.
Is your lack of reading comprehension the proof of your superior intelligence?
Is your inability to back up your claims the proof of their accuracy?
Are you always like this, or are you having a medical situation for which we should dial 911?
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