It’s a Gift
The New Year offers a wonderful opportunity, while friends and family are gathered, to begin the conversation about your health care choices. It is a gift you can give yourself and your loved ones. Talking about your medical care preferences gives everyone peace of mind. You know that your medical choices will be honored if you are unable to communicate them, and they know they are fulfilling your wishes. Give everyone the best present of all and begin the conversation to guide the direction you wish to take on your end-of-life journey!
posted by Begin The Conversation @ 8:18 AM
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I have dealt with aging parents lives. This gave me the opportunity to spend many days observing others in a nursing home who were ill or injured ages 18 to 100. I talked to the mostly men young and older who required oxygen to keep them alive. No way would they give up even though it meant living in that nursing home. I was there when the 18 year old started coming out of the coma from his automobile accident. He was the new father of a baby. Initially his room was across from the nurses station. They moved him to the end of the hall. No one heard him when he started having breathing problems. One of the cleaning people yelled for help, but it was too late. He wanted to live. One lady was on 2 dozen different drugs. When I visited her one morning she was almost in a stupor. She wasn't asking to die. She just wanted some help. YOUR SLIDE PRESENTATION JUST TALKS ABOUT MANAGING YOUR DEATH. No one can predict ahead of time how they are going to feel or what kind of treatment they want for a disease or accident before it happens no matter what their age or disability. Too bad if you made the decision to have yourself euthanized and changed your mind.
The goal of our Begin The Conversation initiative is to have people consider and talk about decisions so that their wishes, whatever they are, can be carried out, especially when a person is too ill or injured to speak for himself. It ensures that, before a crisis, the patient has discussed his health care choices with family and physicians so they can be more confident to act on his behalf. We hope that everyone, no matter how young or old, will take the time to begin the conversation so that no one – patient, family, or physician - will deal with regret over healthcare decisions.
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