Posted on 04/10/2011 5:35:48 AM PDT by BykrBayb
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Grand Junction proclaimed Monday as National Health Care Decisions Day, urging all citizens to make their health care wishes known through advance care planning for managing a serious illness, or end-of-life care.
Living wills and advance directives are documents that spell out your wishes if you should become incapacitated due to a medical crisis.
Millions of people began filling out living wills and advance directives after the 1976 Supreme Court case of Karen Ann Quinlan, whose parents battled with hospital staff who sought to keep Quinlan alive through artificial means, even though she had lapsed into a vegetative state and doctors had determined she would never recover. The Supreme Court eventually ruled in the parents favor, who said they wanted Karen to die with “grace and dignity.”
People who make their wishes known in advance can avoid situations like Quinlan's, and that of another woman — Terri Schiavo — who suffered a cardiac arrest, that led to a vegetative state lasting 15 years before her mechanical life support system was removed.
The Mesa County Advance Care Planning Task Force, a group of local organizations, is offering “Medical Decision Making in Colorado” workshops on how to plan for end-of-life care, Thursday and Saturday, April 14 and 16. The sessions are free.
The sessions will include communicating end-of-life wishes to loved ones, and how to appoint a health care power of attorney. There will also be new information regarding living wills and other advance directive documents.
St. Mary's Hospital is hosting Thursday's session, and Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado will host the Saturday workshop. Light refreshments will be provided.
Limited seating is available and reservations are required by calling Western Colorado 2-1-1.
GO&DO
What: Advance Care Planning Session - hosted by St. Mary's Hospital and Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado
When and Where: April 14 - St. Mary's Saccomanno Education Center, 2635 7th St. April 16 - Hospice and Palliative Care of Western Colorado, 3090 N. 12th St. Unit B, Room 102 Both sessions are 9-11 a.m.
Cost: Free
Info: Register before April 12 by calling Western Colorado 2-1-1
What “decision” are you talking about? Whether or not to murder me? My child will never have to make that decision. I taught him that murder is wrong.
And that really, really bothers you.
You should have fish for dinner tonight.
No, you still haven’t learned to read. What bothers us is you lefties pushing your agenda on vulnerable people. Anyone who wants a “living will” can get one. They don’t need to be pressured into it by the likes of you.
I don't want to be kept alive artificially. I just don't want to be dehydrated and starved. It's so...progressive.
Food and water are not "artificial."
Please elaborate on your comment that "all educated people are leftists."
Satire.
The cultural populists masquerading as conservatives believe in the wisdom and virtue of the common man, thus they have contempt for people such as the bioethicist
In other words, conservatives are simpletons and liberals are educated, such as the bioethicist. He thinks we’re too stupid to understand what he’s saying. Wait until he gets around to evaluating our “Christianist fantasies.”
Damn I’m disappointed. I’ve been on this thread since 10 and no one has had the courtesy to call me a RINO.
Oops. That was under the name Glenn. You didn't start posting as Ben until post #16.
Is it true that moderators have a way of tracking the IP address, to determine if your claim to be two different FReepers is true?
I'll cling to my Bible, Freedom and Guns.
You can keep the (hope and) change.
I'm an old conservative, not one of the new populist conservatives that came in with Nixon's southern strategy
So you aren't going to be a man and answer do you believe that you have the right to decide who is deserving of life?
Yes. They can track repeat trolls that way.
You’re obviously educated beyond your ability to comprehend what you’ve been taught. That’s what us dumb hicks call an overeducated idiot. You’re no conservative. Just because your liberal college professors told you that conservatives are greedy, hateful, cold, heartless bastards who would sell their elderly grandmothers for parts doesn’t mean you are a conservative.
So Glenn/Ben Ficklin, that was a clumsy giveaway.
You should get down on your knees and thank me. This was just another dead thread until I came along.
Hmmmm...
You are such a knucklehead.
Whoa up there, Trigger. Free Republic has had it's share of Paleos who used "sock puppets" to create false support for their liberal perspectives.
I'm pretty sure both Dane and Willie Green used them.
I had a career in industrial chemicals. Analytical chemist, formulating chemist, management(in a union shop), sales. I've worked in consumables and capital equipment. I know a lot about the manufacturing sector, the Mexican workforce, pollution control and abatement.
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