Dear Judy,
My father was not a believer in prolonging life, when life is really over. He had a Living Will. I — his daughter — was the agent of that Living Will. And he was pretty insistent that “Do Not Resuscitate” meant what it said: If his heart stopped, and at 80 he had a very [...]
Dear Judy,
My elderly father has lived for four years in an assisted living community, where he signed a “Do-Not-Resuscitate” document in the event his heart stopped beating, and also wrote out — in pen — his desire not to have either feeding or breathing tubes, if push came to shove.
Well he suffered congestive heart failure, [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009