How to Choose a Health Care Proxy & How to Be a Health Care Proxy
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In addition to having the conversation, it’s important to choose a health care proxy – the person who will make decisions about your medical care if you become unable to make them for yourself. This user-friendly guide offers facts and tips necessary to make sound decisions about choosing, and being, a health care proxy.
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Too many people die in a manner they would not choose, and too many of their loved ones are left feeling bereaved, guilty, and uncertain.
It's time to transform our culture so we shift from not talking about dying to talking about it. It's time to share the way we want to live at the end of our lives. And it's time to communicate about the kind of care we want and don't want for ourselves.
We believe that the place for this to begin is at the kitchen table not in the intensive care unit with the people we love, before it's too late.
Together we can make these difficult conversations easier. We can make sure that our own wishes, and those of our loved ones, are both expressed and respected. The Conversation Project offers tools, guidance, and resources to begin talking with loved ones about your and their wishes.
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