You never expect it to happen to you or your loved ones but there are no guarantees in this life and bad things happen to good people all of the time.
When something bad happens and hard decisions have to be made in extremely tough times, everyone wishes they had talked about this topic so they knew what to do.
The topic is what to do if someone is kept alive on life support with no apparent sign of ever returning to a normal life or even a state of awareness.
This can happen due to an accident, a chemical imbalance brought on for a myriad of reasons, a stroke, or any number of possibilities too numerous to mention here.
One never knows when there may be a need for a living will that would make the tough decision of pulling the plug or not, based on the person's wishes, not your own.
The Terri Schiavo case was an example of not having a living will and her loved ones disagreeing on what Terri would have wanted.
The Supreme Court had to decide for Terri and it drove home the point that it would have been easier if Terri would have decided who was responsible for the decision and what she would have preferred.
Now it is not always possible to have one unless you sit down with your loved ones and make them up.
If you are going into a Momence Illinois hospital for just about any procedure, they should ask you if you have a living will, especially if you are going for surgery or any time you will under anesthesia.
You then have the opportunity to fill one out right there.
It is not a bad idea and it is a thoughtful gesture.
If you are in a state of unconsciousness and unable to make a decision on what to do about your health, you want to put yourself into the hands of the ones who love you the most and with whom you discussed this topic.
It is not an easy topic to discuss and unless a person is going in for something as dramatic as a triple bypass in Illinois or a brain surgery in Iowa, the topic may just not come up.
A living will has nothing to do with your possessions or any of those things that a will covers; it is a legal document outlining the kind of medical treatments you prefer if you are to become seriously or terminally ill.
If you are unable to make decisions about your health because you are incapacitated, then in a living will you could have already expressed your desires for your personal, emotional, spiritual and medical needs and there won't be any question at this time as to what you would want to do if you could make the decision.
Even if you are going into a Bourbonnais healthcare for a routine procedure it may be OK to have already drawn a living will up.
When something bad happens and hard decisions have to be made in extremely tough times, everyone wishes they had talked about this topic so they knew what to do.
The topic is what to do if someone is kept alive on life support with no apparent sign of ever returning to a normal life or even a state of awareness.
This can happen due to an accident, a chemical imbalance brought on for a myriad of reasons, a stroke, or any number of possibilities too numerous to mention here.
One never knows when there may be a need for a living will that would make the tough decision of pulling the plug or not, based on the person's wishes, not your own.
The Terri Schiavo case was an example of not having a living will and her loved ones disagreeing on what Terri would have wanted.
The Supreme Court had to decide for Terri and it drove home the point that it would have been easier if Terri would have decided who was responsible for the decision and what she would have preferred.
Now it is not always possible to have one unless you sit down with your loved ones and make them up.
If you are going into a Momence Illinois hospital for just about any procedure, they should ask you if you have a living will, especially if you are going for surgery or any time you will under anesthesia.
You then have the opportunity to fill one out right there.
It is not a bad idea and it is a thoughtful gesture.
If you are in a state of unconsciousness and unable to make a decision on what to do about your health, you want to put yourself into the hands of the ones who love you the most and with whom you discussed this topic.
It is not an easy topic to discuss and unless a person is going in for something as dramatic as a triple bypass in Illinois or a brain surgery in Iowa, the topic may just not come up.
A living will has nothing to do with your possessions or any of those things that a will covers; it is a legal document outlining the kind of medical treatments you prefer if you are to become seriously or terminally ill.
If you are unable to make decisions about your health because you are incapacitated, then in a living will you could have already expressed your desires for your personal, emotional, spiritual and medical needs and there won't be any question at this time as to what you would want to do if you could make the decision.
Even if you are going into a Bourbonnais healthcare for a routine procedure it may be OK to have already drawn a living will up.