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Getting started is the hardest part |
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Getting Started Is the Hardest Part
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"It's kind of like, hey, I'm bullet-proof, nothing is going to happen to me. But it's something to really think about."
- Jerry |
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Few of us find it easy to talk to family members about end-of-life issues. We may have ideas about what kinds of medical treatment we would or would not want and who we would trust to make the best possible decisions for us when we are no longer able to make them for ourselves. Sharing these thoughts with our families can seem awkward, and approaching other family members about what they would want seems even more difficult. It's not surprising, then, that we have many reasons for delaying preparation of our "advance directives" - our living wills and our appointments of health-care agents to speak on our behalf when death is imminent.
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You'll be living forever, right?
Lydia, grandmother
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No talking about sex, politics or advance directives
Tom, manager of chaplaincy services
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What's a living will, anyway?
Louard, job trainer
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