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
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You could not be more wrong. If what your "living will" stipulates is that you want no extraordinary life-preserving procedures, it is in line with the pro-life position.
You think conservatives (or as you call us "populists") are too stupid to know what you're saying. You think you've been allowed to troll a conservative forum all these years because "populists" are too stupid to zot you, but you're too cowardly to test that theory. If you had any integrity at all, you'd tell Jim personally how screwed up you think his pro-God, pro-life forum is. But you won't. You prefer to lay low, so you can continue to leave your little droppings in the punch bowl on a regular basis.
You're very welcome. But I don't know whether I want to keep smacking trolls around. I just don't like what it's turning me into.
Ever since Willie Green got the zot, it just hasn't been the same.
You are dangerously naive.
Every country which has adopted the "right to die," has began to slide towards the "duty to die."
Do you truly believe you are someone so special that you would be among the privileged few who would enjoy genuine health care? Remember, Obama said sometimes it might be more cost effective to send you home with a pill rather than giving you the life saving surgery.
Sad to say, I believe this evil obsession with death had it’s genesis in Colorful Colorado. Duty to Die, Dick Lamm brought abortion to America and went on to push for euthanasia with his Governor’s Commission on Life and the Law. Pray for him to repent, before it’s too late!
Since he went to all that trouble, you'd think he would have mentioned his jobs as lab assistant/teaching assistant in a new, unknown, and remote nursing school and student instructor in Nursing School/Anatomy & Physiology labs .
For someone pretending to be the voice of authority on medical issues, and bragging about his resume, it doesn't make any sense that he would omit his medical experience, and cite only irrelevant experience. Unless he forgot that he once had a career in medicine.
Or maybe he never really had that illustrious career in medicine. Maybe he was really just one of the dumb football players he claimed to have taught.
But then what do I know? I'm just a right wing bitcher.
Yeah, that's the ticket!
I haven’t been able to find much info about Dylan Walborn. Many sources say he was born in 2000 and died in 2005, but I can’t find any specific dates. It appears his “family” would prefer the world just forget he ever existed. Disabled people can never be dead enough to satisfy some people, so they have to kill the memories too.
I think it was because he doesn't like to brag. (I'm sorry. I tried to say that with a straight face. I really did.)
Ben is a danger to FR. Ben is a danger to the nation. Ben is a danger to western civilization. Ben is a danger to Christianity.
Ben is a danger because he went to college. Ben is a danger because he studied and worked in a scientific field. Ben is a danger because he was qualified as a student lab instructor. Ben is a danger because he won't bow down to those who annoint themselves to be morally superior.
Ben is a danger to himself, because he’s off his rocker.
I always find it ironic when someone pushes for the extermination of everyone below a certain mental capacity, which happens to be above their own. They lobby for their own murder, and don’t even know it.
It is being determined in the lawyer's office and the doctor's office.
It is being determined by individuals and families beyond your control.
You have already lost, but if you want delude yourself in to thinking that Ben is dangerously to blame, go ahead on.
I agree with Grizzled Bear. You’re not dangerous to me, much as you’d like to be. You’re dangerous to yourself. You’re at high risk of falling into your own trap. Pro-lifers are just trying to prevent you from killing innocent people along the way. We’ve successfully rescued many people from your forced euthanasia, and we’ll continue to do so. Nobody is trying to prevent you from killing yourself. Now eat your fish.
Looks like the Denver Post link at Dylanwalborn.com isn’t working but
here is the Denver Post article chronicling his starvation death:
http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_3319527
“Letting go” or killing ~ you decide!
Tortuous abuse of language and there was no outcry apart from
Colorado RTL.
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