As the siblings prepare for the upcoming family meeting set for Valentines Day weekend, I was assigned the health care proxy. What's a health care proxy, or a Living Will? It's a legal document that gives someone you trust the power to deal with end of life situations if, say, you're in the hospital in a coma or otherwise can't communicate your wishes to the doctor. This is the document Terri Schiavo was missing and instead she was kept alive for years while in a persistent vegetative state.Issues like Do Not Resuscitate and other artificial life support decisions need to be discussed with my parents. That might be awkward, but the chaos that could happen if we don't have their wishes written down would be much worse. So how to get this accomplished? The Living Will is a legal document, but there's no time to involve an attorney and their needs should be quite simple, there must be a document I can download from the web.
Well, yes and no. Then I found LegalZoom.
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