Healthcare Power of Attorney – Page 2 – The Good Death Society Blog

February 2, 2025January 30, 2025

Why FEN?

Final Exit Network, a nonprofit, offers end-of-life resources including articles on Exit Guide Services, Advance Directives, personal stories, and Healthcare Representatives, emphasizing the significance of choosing a suitable healthcare representative aligned with one's wishes for medical decision-making. Membership offers access to forums and events. (Continue reading ...)

January 19, 2025January 17, 2025

LGBTQ Older Adults Face Unique End-of-Life Issues

What challenges do LGBTQ elders face in finding a trusted individual to discuss their preferences for end-of-life care? (Continue reading ...)

January 12, 2025January 13, 2025

To avoid unwanted medical treatment: choose a bulldog surrogate to fight for you

"Your choice of surrogate may be more important than your living will." (Continue reading ...)

December 1, 2024November 27, 2024

Making Your Final Wishes Known

A new workbook by a Minneapolis cardiologist offers guidance and reflective prompts to prepare for conversations with loved ones about end-of-life topics. (Continue reading ...)

June 2, 2024May 29, 2024

Who Needs An Elder Law Attorney?

"Does the contract allow you to have access to your own doctors? What is the facility’s position on VSED? If you enter hospice, will they commit to providing adequate pain relief? If you live in a state with MAiD, will the facility cooperate?" (Continue reading ...)

May 19, 2024May 16, 2024

Dying: You Have One Chance To Get It Right

"Many of the individuals around the bedside barely know each other, and this becomes an environment of misinformation, mistrust, and hidden agendas about substantial financial and estate issues ... as ex-wives and ex-husbands, half siblings who never knew each other, long-time same-sex partners (surprise, who knew?), in-laws, out-laws show up at the bedside." -- Dr. Edward T. Creagan, M.D. (Continue reading ...)

March 3, 2024March 1, 2024

LGBTQ+ End-of-Life Planning

"This committed couple who loved each other through life's ups and downs were separated when Pat breathed her final breath." (Continue reading ...)

January 28, 2024January 25, 2024

Having Dementia Wishes Followed

"Whose wishes for his medical treatment were we to honor? Those of my father back when he was a healthy, highly functioning geneticist? Or those of the simpler, weakened man my father had become?" (Continue reading ...)

January 21, 2024January 17, 2024

It’s Time for Physicians to Tackle Advance Care Medical Planning

"If these five reasons don’t make a strong enough case for physicians to engage with their patients in advance care planning, here’s one more: it is simply the right thing to do." (Continue reading ...)

December 24, 2023December 21, 2023

Thoughts On A “Good Death”

"I have the privilege to learn and hear interesting perspectives, along with all the questions and comments that our community members have, on the topics of death and dying. Here are a few insights I have gleaned from these discussions." (Continue reading ...)

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