Tuesday, November 17, 2015

End-of-Life Conversations

If you choose to have an end-of-life discussion with your family over Thanksgiving, you might try using these sources:

Related to Brittany Maynard and end of life,  PRI report:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-11-20/explore-final-moments-dying-man-who-chose-end-his-own-life

Questions to guide end of life conversations:
  • http://associationdatabase.com/aws/MCA/asset_manager/get_file/73442/conversations_revision_jan_2014.pdf  
  • http://www.dyingwell.org/faq.htm 
  • http://theconversationproject.org/ 
  • National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
    • http://www.nhpco.org/advance-care-planning
    • http://www.nhpco.org/resources/end-life-care--resources
Disclaimer: check with your health care provider or attorney for up-to-date info, this is meant to be illustrative and informative, not legal.

State of Ohio packet of information --and a series of questions -- about end of life
http://associationdatabase.com/aws/MCA/asset_manager/get_file/73442/conversations_revision_jan_2014.pdf

Commonwealth of Kentucky Living Will packet
http://ag.ky.gov/civil/consumerprotection/livingwills/Documents/livingwillpacket.pdf

State of Illinois Living Will template
http://www.idph.state.il.us/public/books/Livin.PDF

Indiana -- I'll post soon.

2 comments:

  1. A few weeks ago, I asked my parents about their living will and I wanted to see what it all involved. My dad laid it out for me to see and each one of us children had our own living will saying that my parents have consent over end of life decisions in the case that one of us had become unconscious or been in an accident where we had a brain injury that may have caused severe damage. I also looked over my grandfathers living will, who is deceased, to see what his wishes were.

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