OPINION: 'April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day. Make that the day to check off three tasks: completing your advance care planning documents, talking them over with the people most important to you, and filing a copy in the Arizona…
My sister Jane was a devoted mother and valued friend. She advocated for employee rights in the workplace. When cancer spread through her body, though, Jane wouldn’t talk with us about anything other than treatment and being a survivor. She wouldn’t even speak with her medical team about what she might want if her condition became untreatable. Though she drafted her financial power of attorney and her will, she didn’t sign them.
People are also reading… A slip of paper on which she’d written the title of a single, soulful hymn was the only clue she left to help us plan her funeral. These experiences with Mother and Jane were formative. I’ve completed my living will and medical power of attorney. I’ve shared them with the people closest to me. And I volunteer at my church and with the Funeral Consumers Alliance of Arizona, helping people like you complete their living wills and medical powers of attorney.
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