Question

Consider your own advanced care planning.

• What advanced directives might you consider?
• If you couldn’t make your own decisions, who would you ask to do that for you?
• Do you have a living will? Where is it located? Does anyone know about it?
• What is included or what would you include in your living will?
• Who would be your power-of-attorney?
• What special cultural or religious beliefs do you want to be considered?
• Do you want anything special to happen after you die?

Answer 1

The advanced directives that I consider are: living will and the durable power of attorney for health care.

If I couldn’t make my own decisions, I would ask my mother to do that for me.

Yes, I do have a living will. I have kept the originals in a safe but easily accessible place. and given a copy to my doctor. My family is aware about it.

I have included:

Organ and tissue donations

Donating my body for scientific study also specified.

Passive euthanasia: If I am ever going to be in a vegetative state, i would prefer switching off life-support machines, not carrying out a life-extending operation, not administering life-extending drugs. I do not want to be kept alive by artificial means and the hospitals to keep making money out of it. I have the right to die with dignity.

I would make a power of attorney by two or more persons jointly that includes my mother and husband.

Special cultural and religious beliefs to be considered are: doctors should not interfere with the process of natural death.i.e. no resuscitation/ventilator but also that after death my body or useful organs be donated to the needy. I would want my body to be cremated in the specified cemetry plot.

Just want a small prayer service to be conducted post death and eulogy given by any one of my member. I want a least expensive burial.

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