Living wills

by crazyblondeb 4 Replies latest watchtower medical

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  crazyblondeb

  There has been alot of threads about health and the blood issue. I can't stress enough the importance of having an Advanced Directive or Living Will. Especially if your family are still JW's.

  This site allows you to pick your state, then fill in your name and address. Print it, then fill it out according to your wishes.

  http://www.legaldocs.com/htmdocs/livin_st.htm

  This site registers Living Wills, that all hospitals and doctors can access. I haven't been completely thru it yet. It also gives alot of info.

  http://www.uslivingwillregistry.com/forms.shtm
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  What-A-Coincidence

  awesome! thanks!
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  restrangled

  Along these same lines, get any assests put into a Living Trust if you have children or relatives that you want to leave things to. This will cost a bit of money...aproximately (500.00 to 1K ) but will save thousands in probate costs and taxes in the event of your death.

  Tiltle to your home, cars, bank accounts, retirement account and the like. Otherwise probate lawyers, the state, and the IRS will eat up any assests you have and drag it out for several years to boot.

  r.
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  Snoozy

  Living wills are nice. The problem is getting the Drs and hospitals to read your chart!

  They are usually in such a hurry they just skim the top page of your chart.

  If hubby (JW) didn't have someone with him all the time someone would have given him blood.

  I had to tell them several times he did not take blood.

  They even came in one time to get his blood type in case he needed it.I said: Don't you guys ever check the patients charts before you come in"?

  My advice..don't ever allow a loved one to be in a hospital alone...

  Snoozy..been there done that.
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  teela(2)

  I have to agree. My mother suffered a stoke 3 months ago leaving her completly parslysed down one side and the other only respovice to pain, temperature and somtimes touc, no speech no real facial movement.. For the first week we refused to have a feeding tube inserted, no medication and fluids. After the first week see gained the abiltiy to sallow again and ate like there was no tommorow. The stroke had cause servere brain damage and Mum had little memory and no way to communicate except through facial gestures(sometimes). She survied another two months showing no sighs of improvement, being in nappies, feed by spoon, not understanding where she was and what was happening. She was sent to a hospital wing at an old folks home to the Hospital wing. The treatment at the hospital was to prolong her life. We caught them injecting fluid and food directly into her mouth. They tried reabilitaion , once. At the Home they looked after her and kept her comftable, She had another stoke and died the same day. The said fact is that even if she had a living will it would not have helped. There was no resusatation and could breath on her own.