Dear Judy,
My insane brother — and I don’t use that word loosely — is insisting our terminally ill mother get “everything she deserves.” Mom is under hospice care: she has metastatic breast cancer which has gone to the bone.
She is a brave person, but she’s had enough, and left us specific instructions. My brother, who [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m new to thecheckoutline, so I was really upset to see your advice on Friday to a woman whose mother was dying of ovarian cancer who had no Living Will. I think those things are just a prescription for an early death.
I personally won’t sign one (our estate lawyer tried to get me to [...]
“My sister was 45, when I told her she had Alzheimer’s,” Vaughn James, author of the “The Alzheimer’s Advisor,” recalls. James, a law professor at Texas Tech, subtitles his new book “A Caregiver’s Guide to Dealing with Tough Legal and Practical Issues,” and those in fact are his focus.
They should also be your focus, [...]
“Dear Judy, often you tell people, rightly, to write a will,” one reader writes. “But please emphasize it’s really important they do so if they have a complex estate, or a lot of relatives.”
Actually, here’s the most important person you should write a will for: You.
I know, I know. You’re not going to inherit anything [...]
Dear Judy,
Maybe you’ve never gotten an email like this before. Our father had a stroke 2 months ago and is now on life support. He has tubes running all through him, for eating and for breathing too. He can’t talk. He recognizes nobody.
My younger brother who lives in Salt Lake City, more than 900 miles [...]
Dear Judy,
I’m 60, and I had a recent health scare. It turned out to be nothing serious, but I think I really learned something from the experience. I want to start preparing now for the inevitable.
But my stabs at wise planning — Living Will, funeral planning (I want cremation) etc — are scaring the hell out [...]
Dear Judy,
My brother is a terminally ill cancer victim. To date no one has actually told him his condition is terminal, so he believes that after therapy he will be going home, and perhaps eventually back to work.
Is it unfair to my brother that no one has given him the bad news? Is it doing [...]
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Posted on January 24th, 2009