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The article that I chose to use was called "Do you have a few minutes to talk?"
The article was about a daughter that received a call from her mother one day and her mom asked what kind of service she would want to see her parents have, a funeral or a memorial service. The daughter was nervous hearing this because she automatically assumed that one of her parents was terminally ill. They they assured her that neither of them was sick, they just wanted to know what type so they could tell her where to have the service.
The parents were doing this because they wanted the daughter to not have to think about where they would want to have the service and that it would be less stress in her time of grieving when one of them were to pass away.
There was a Florida woman that had been in a persistent vegetative state ( a medical patient is completely unresponsive to psychological and physical stimuli, no display of life) for 15 years. Her husband wanted to take her off the feeding tube, claiming that it was what she would have wanted, but they would not let him. Eventually it went to court and they allowed him to take her off of the life support, maintenance of the vital functions of a critically ill person.
If the woman would have had her husband put as her medical power of attorney (a legal form that allows an individual to empower another with decisions regarding her healthcare and medical treatments), then he could have taken her off of the feeding tubes years earlier. Or if she would have had an advanced directive, a written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment, then they would have been able to know what she would have wanted.
How many people actually want their exact end of life decisions to be made by their loved ones?
http://theconversationproject.org/your-stories/do-you-have-a-few-minutes-to-talk/
www.apa.org/monitor/2010/10/living-will.aspx