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To: sickoflibs

Sorry. To say in living will no cpr is not taking into account that cpr for say an allergic reaction is something most would want. Cpr for a person who just stops breathing when terminal is something most would not want. But living wills cannot anticipate all sorts of possibilities.

Better a health care power of attorney given to someone you trust.


24 posted on 06/02/2014 2:29:11 PM PDT by amihow
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To: amihow
RE :”To say in living will no cpr is not taking into account that cpr for say an allergic reaction is something most would want. Cpr for a person who just stops breathing when terminal is something most would not want. But living wills cannot anticipate all sorts of possibilities.
Better a health care power of attorney given to someone you trust.”

My grandma gave my mother power of attorney but put in her living will that she shouldn't be kept alive over a week or two with tubes, and it only applied once she could no longer make decisions, and it was obvious at one point in her 90s that she couldnt.

A few times she had emergencies and the hospital put her on tubes short term

In the end she died over 100 in her home,

She knew to make these decisions when she still could.

27 posted on 06/02/2014 8:16:42 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. I won. ')
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