Lambda Legal has great information on their website in order to add your specific wishes to your healthcare directive.
http://www.lambdalegal.org/sites/def...are-wishes.pdf
As a human being and an RN, I am embarrassed to admit that that I don't have a healthcare directive and I don't have a will, either.
I have had a couple of instances over the past few years in which things could have turned out the ultimate worst for me medically.
That is a convoluted sentence to try not to say that I could have, and was sick enough; to leave this earth.
I need to make the time now that I am working part-time, to take care of this ultimate and most important business.
I want each of my daughters to get my invested money, my 401k's and my life insurance.
I surely don't want it to have to go to probate.
Nor do I want to have a vent or feeding tube if there were no chance of recovery. My oldest daughter would not want them removed but my youngest would honor my wishes.
The old adage is true: If it is not written, it does not exist.
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~Anya~
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