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Category Archives: Advance Health Care Directive

Balancing Life and Death

By Marlene S. Cooper |

Every few years national headlines are captured by news of a family caught in the throes of making difficult medical decisions. In the past we heard about Karen Quinlan and Terry Schaivo. In both cases the young women were kept alive for years by artificial means although they were in what is called “a… Read More »

Anatomical Gifts

By Marlene S. Cooper |

This article focuses on a type of charitable gift everyone is capable of making, regardless of the size of their estate. This type of gift is known as an anatomical gift – the giving of either your entire body after your death for medical research and education or certain body parts for transplant to… Read More »

Life and Death Issues

By Marlene S. Cooper |

An Advance Health Care Directive is a written document in which one person (the principal) designates another person (the agent) to make medical decisions on the principal’s behalf when the principal is unable to make medical decisions for him or herself. The principal may also predetermine which decisions should be made in certain medical… Read More »

Expressing Your Medical Preferences

By Marlene S. Cooper |

You may have heard of the term “living will.” A living will is a written statement about the types of medical care you want (or don’t want) if you become incapacitated. This is a different document than the “will” used for estate planning purposes. The living will is only concerned with health care issues,… Read More »

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