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Life-and-Death Agreements: To Die With Dignity |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: Marie V. Sonderman |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,077 Words, 6,570 Characters |
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Whenever an accident victim was brought in, one of the first things we looked for was a medic alert bracelet. The bracelets carry messages warning of allergies to antibiotics and other emergency medical information.
Many times I wished those bracelets also carried the message, "I have a living will." In my experience as a nurse, I found that a living will or a durable health-care power of attorney saved most patients and their families a tremendous amount of unnecessary physical and emotional pain and suffering.
Attorneys call such a document a health-care advance directive, but most people know them as a living will or a durable health-care power of attorney. Living wills can be used to instruct physicians to stop using extreme measures, such as a respirator, when a person is termin...
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...r last wishes known. These three groups believe advance directives are a legal and safe way to assure that people retain control over the medical decisions made at the end of their lives.
My experience with life-and-death decisions has taught me that making them in advance, before there is an emergency, is one of the most thoughtful and loving gifts a person can give to his family members.
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