Living
Wills
American Bar Association
Health Care Power of Attorney
American Bar Association
Five Wishes
CARING:
A Good Death:
Challenges Choices and Care Options
Hard Choices for
Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care and the Patient
with a Life-Threatening Illness
Your Life Your
Choices-Planning for Future Medical Decisions: How to Prepare a
Personalized Living Will
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Information from the American Bar
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The Five Wishes document helps you
express how you want to be treated if you are seriously ill and unable
to speak for yourself. It is unique among all other living will
and health agent forms because it looks to all of a person's needs: medical,
personal, emotional and spiritual. Five Wishes also
encourages discussing your wishes with your family and physician.
Five Wishes lets your family and
doctors know:
- Which person you want to make health care
decisions for you when you can't make them.
- The kind of medical treatment you want or
don't want.
- How comfortable you want to be.
- How you want people to treat you.
- What you want your loved ones to know.
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Good Death: Challenges Choices and Care Options,
by Charles Meyer (1998). Down-to-earth, lay-language explanation of the
implications of end-of-life care decisions from a religious and
spiritual perspective. A 64-page paperback available in many bookstores.
Hard
Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Care and the
Patient with a Life-Threatening Illness,
by Hank Dunn. A&A Publishers, Inc., P.O. Box 1098,
Herndon, VA 20172-1098 (Tel. 703-707-0174). Web site: www.hardchoices.com.
A concise and helpful 48-page booklet
on end-of-life decisions concerning resuscitation, food
and fluids, hospitalization, and cure versus comfort care.
Your
Life Your Choices–Planning for Future Medical Decisions: How to
Prepare a Personalized Living
Will, by Robert Pearlman, et
al., and the Veterans Administration Medical
Center, Seattle, WA. A comprehensive do-it-yourself workbook on planning
for end-of-life care. (Parts of this
tool kit were adapted from this publication.) Available on the Web
at http://www1.va.gov/hsrd/publications/ylyc.pdf.
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