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November 25, 2018November 26, 2018

Notes on a lecture by Thaddeus Pope about a VSED dementia advance directive

Lamar Hankins shares his notes taken from a lecture by Professor Thaddeus Pope, who spoke on the topic "Avoiding Advanced Dementia with a VSED Directive" for the Hemlock Society of San Diego. (Continue reading ...)

August 19, 2018July 23, 2019

Fashioning an advance directive for dementia

This post lays out a process for making a dementia directive to be used when or if we become unable to make our own views known because of mental incapacity. If you are willing to live with dementia through the end of the disease, this post will not be of use to you. (Continue reading ...)

July 15, 2018March 16, 2022

WHAT “DO EVERYTHING” REALLY MEANS

ZDoggMD (Zubin Damania, MD) explains in his engrossing style what it really means to decide that you want to be kept alive by doing everything possible. It may be time to remodel those advance directives. (Continue reading ...)

April 29, 2018March 16, 2022

An obituary I would like to see

No, it is not an obituary for a specific individual. It is an obituary that recognizes and celebrates taking control of one’s end-of-life suffering. (Continue reading ...)

April 15, 2018April 16, 2018

When Something Has Happened We’d All Prefer Not: My Advance Directives In case of a Sudden Life Threatening Event

Timothy Boon, RN, is the CEO of Good Shepherd Community Care (GSCC) in Newton, MA. GSCC is an independent, community-based, not-for-profit, non-sectarian, hospice care agency, the first organized in Massachusetts 40 years ago. Recently, he wrote a poem in the style of Dr. Seuss, and recited it on video for ZDoggMD (otherwise known as Dr. Zubin Damania, Founder of Turntable Health, a direct primary care clinic in downtown Las Vegas). The poem is posted here by permission of the author. The video is posted courtesy of ZDoggMD. (Continue reading ...)

November 13, 2017March 16, 2022

Finding and being a good (or great) health care advocate

One problem with advance directives is that often they are not honored. It is critical that you have a good advocate who demands that you get only the care you want and do not get what is not wanted, not only at end of life but at any time you encounter a medical institution. You will need to choose someone who meets the legal requirements to act as a health care or medical agent, which some states call a proxy, surrogate, or representative. I call this person your "advocate." State requirements differ greatly, so be sure to use your state's forms for naming a health care or medical agent, not generic documents like the "5 wishes." (Continue reading ...)

September 11, 2017March 18, 2022

A toast “to life” may include the wish for a peaceful death

Nearly everyone hopes for a peaceful death; yet such an end can be elusive. Many of us face both philosophical and practical questions as we do what we can to make our own deaths peaceful. Some of us may have religious questions. Judaism, like many other religions, is all over the map in its thinking about ways to achieve a peaceful death. (Continue reading ...)

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