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Free advance care planning session offered
Grand Junction Free Press ^ | Friday, April 8, 2011 | Sharon Sullivan

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: deathbots; deathpanels; euthanasia; moralabsolutes; prolife; rtl; schiavo; terrischiavo; terrislist
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To: Ben Ficklin; BykrBayb
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.

Hi, I'm Abraham Lincoln's grand father. My claim is about as valid as yours.

81 posted on 04/10/2011 2:21:56 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: Ben Ficklin
16 posted on April 10, 2011 11:05:39 AM EDT by Ben Ficklin

But okay, you must live in the Central time zone. My mistake.

82 posted on 04/10/2011 2:22:40 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Glenn
You are such a knucklehead.

So I've heard. On this very thread, come to think of it. All us conservatives are just a bunch of uneducated hicks.

83 posted on 04/10/2011 2:25:24 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Ben Ficklin

So you’ve had a lot of jobs. Am I supposed to swoon now?


84 posted on 04/10/2011 2:26:27 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb

This is simply disgusting.


85 posted on 04/10/2011 2:56:22 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Welcome to the thread. There’s only a couple trolls this time.


86 posted on 04/10/2011 2:58:13 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Glenn; BykrBayb
I learned early in life not to waste time arguing with zealots.

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I'm surprised then that you've deigned to grace us with your presence.

87 posted on 04/10/2011 2:59:09 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Keep going. That one’s boring. The smartest liberal in the world is here!


88 posted on 04/10/2011 3:01:10 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Ben Ficklin; BykrBayb
I hate to tell you this, but with a name like BykrBayb, you are going to have a hard time convincing anyone that you are a qualified bioethicist.

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"Bioethicist" is simply a euphemism for "death monger". BykrBayb is pro-life.

89 posted on 04/10/2011 3:02:14 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Grizzled Bear

Thank you, GB.


90 posted on 04/10/2011 3:03:44 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BykrBayb
I have some sympathy for them. It must be awful to feel that way about oneself.

Still, promoting the pro-death agenda cannot ever be accepted.

91 posted on 04/10/2011 3:09:55 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Ben Ficklin; BykrBayb; DJ MacWoW; wagglebee

Thanks, but I don’t recall anyone on this thread asking for your resume.


92 posted on 04/10/2011 3:11:08 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

That’s the one. And he calls himself an educated conservative, as if that’s a rarity (and as if he really is). I mean you’ve got the first sort of main stream Conservative American, who’s articulate and bright and clean.


93 posted on 04/10/2011 3:12:38 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb
Keep going. That one’s boring. The smartest liberal in the world is here!

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Yes, I saw that. We're all too limited to really discuss this issue with him. I wonder why he's been on FR for so long?

I really mean that.

94 posted on 04/10/2011 3:14:04 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BykrBayb; DJ MacWoW; wagglebee; Ben Ficklin

How demeaning for him to associate with those on this site. Ah, well. I doubt that we can ever hope to understand such a rarified being.


95 posted on 04/10/2011 3:18:06 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Whoa up there, Trigger

Thanks for your input.

96 posted on 04/10/2011 3:21:37 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: Glenn

I’m still waiting for you to back up your position that millions of people rushed out to sign away their right to life in the wake of the removal of Karen Anne Quinlan’s respirator. Since you have the time to post now, go ahead.


97 posted on 04/10/2011 3:31:37 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: BykrBayb
Since you have the time to post now, go ahead.

Apology accepted.

98 posted on 04/10/2011 3:33:20 PM PDT by Glenn (iamtheresistance.org)
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To: trisham
Not true. In response to her statement that I was educated beyond my means to comprehend what I was taught, I pointed that I had a career in what studied.

That's not the problem. The problem is that the populists masquerading as conservatives hate educated people and celebrate their own ignorance.

Its simple. You all are irritated that I have living will.

99 posted on 04/10/2011 3:34:26 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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To: Glenn

Is your lack of reading comprehension the proof of your superior intelligence?

Is your inability to back up your claims the proof of their accuracy?

Are you always like this, or are you having a medical situation for which we should dial 911?


100 posted on 04/10/2011 3:38:29 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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