From: "Dr. D. Kossove" <doctordee@telkomsa.net>
To: "Sharon Anderson" <TaikoMom@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: 5 Wishes: advance directives
Date: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 11:43 AM

Date:    Mon, 22 Dec 2003 22:13:01 -0800
From:    Sharon Anderson <TaikoMom@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: 5 Wishes: advance directives

FIVE WISHES
My primary care doc gave me a copy of a wonderfully simple, upbeat, advance
directive booklet called, FIVE WISHES.
It is 11 pages of fill-in-the blanks questions & explanations which are
very, very, easy to understand.
Doreen looked it over and endorses too!  Even healthy adults need to take
time to do this.


Here are the 5 wishes to be decided on by you:

*       The person I want to make care decisions for me when I cant;
*       The kinds of medical treatments I want or dont want;
*       How comfortable I want to be;
*       How I want people to treat me;
*       What I want my loved ones to know.

The Five Wishes booklet qualifies for your legal purposes, with special
instructions to on satisfying a few other states additional requirements
for witness signatures.
It includes everything you need, witness forms, an emergency information
wallet card, notary form for the states that require it.  You and photocopy
and update your decisions as many times as you want.  Then you need to give
copies of your updated advance directives to your hospital, doc, attorney,
health advocate, and caretakers.

Five Wishes was created by Jim Towey who worked with Mother Teresas hospice
in Washington D.C.  It has received overwhelming positive response.  It was
featured on CNN and the NBCs Today Show and in the pages of both magazines,
Time and Money.  Newspapers have called Five Wishes the first living will
with a heart.


You can order FIVE WISHES booklet, Five Wishes Video or Next Steps online at
the website.

Aging with Dignity
PO Box 1661
Tallahassee, Florida, 32302-1661
www.agingwithdignity.org <http://www.agingwithdignity.org/>
Toll Free:
1-888-5-WISHES  (1-888-594-7437)



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