Question

Discuss what kinds of choices you would make if you knew you were dying. What kind of medical care would you select? What would be most important to you? What are things you would not want done in your medical care? Would you want a funeral service?

Answer 1

1) ans)We have a tendency to fall into a cycle of mourning. It starts with shock and sadness, followed by gaining a glimpse of understanding of how precious and fleeting life is. You find yourself going back to your every day life even while feeling off-kilter. Perhaps during it, you hear or even say platitudes like “you gotta make every day count,” or “just a reminder to live life to the fullest.” Rarely do we actually follow this advice.

What if during that “window of consciousness,” we asked ourselves the hard questions: What have I been putting off? What does a fulfilling life look like and am I pursuing this? What has this person passing away taught me about how I should live? So, I started a play thought experiment, posing the following question to myself:

Death is a significant and inevitable part of life. Thinking and talking about it, understanding how you feel and what you believe, and sharing your wishes with your loved ones and medical team can give you peace of mind and allow others to take care of you in accordance to your wishes.
. Hospice care is offered 24 hours a day, and can be provided at an individual's home, a hospice care facility, or a hospital/nursing home.

The focus of hospice care is to provide pain management and medical care, emotional support, and spiritual counseling for the dying patient, and similar emotional and spiritual help and support for family members. Counseling about death, dying, and the grief process; facilitation of making amends and closure; respite care for family caregivers; and bereavement groups and support are some of the services typically provided by hospice. Hospice teams typically include medical doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists, nursing assistants, trained volunteers, and spiritual advisors.

Hospice care is sometimes covered by private medical insurance and sometimes not covered. However, Medicare will generally pay for hospice services once a doctor has determined that a person has less than six months to live. hospice services generally cost several hundred dollars. Therefore, it is important to be aware of what your private insurance covers and doesn't cover, and plan ahead while still healthy for the possibility that you may one day require hospice services.

Many important decisions need to be made when a person is diagnosed with a terminal illness. This is a disease that can't be treated and will lead to the person's death.

There are a number of tasks to be done in the day, weeks and months following a loved one’s death. Immediately following the death, you’ll need to contact a funeral already done so and the attorney who has your loved one’s will or trust on file.

Bank or other financial institutions

Credit card agencies toboth life insurance and property or car insurance

Social Security office

Other local, state and federal government offices such as veterans’ affairs, tax offices, DMV

Employer’s benefits office

Utility companies if services are in your loved one’s name.