Tag Archives: Advance healthcare directives

Our Weekly Tip:
 You’re Never Too Young to Have An Advanced Healthcare Directive

How having an advanced healthcare directive as part of your estate plan helps loved ones know your exact wishes when you’re unable to voice them

Our Tip of the Week: It is hard to think about death when we are young and living life to the fullest. No one, however, is immune to death, and we cannot predict when and how it will strike. Therefore, … Continue reading

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The Bay Area Celebrates the 7th Annual National Healthcare Decisions Day!

Join SevenPonds and our fellow End-of-Life organizations as we come together to support and encourage the conversation on death

  The “Life of Stories” Program will include music by the Threshold Choir and The Crooner by the Bay; dance performances by Soulciety; and a can’t-miss presentation by Ise Lyfe. The EXPO is a network of organizations serving the public to make your … Continue reading

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Get Informed: Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment

POLST puts end-of-life healthcare directive decisions back in the patient's hands.

We’ve often visited on this blog the importance of Advanced Care Directives to ensure that patients are fully educated and empowered to make end-of-life healthcare decisions. Throughout the years, as the implications of orders like “Do Not Resuscitate” have confused … Continue reading

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The Legal Progress of Aid in Dying

Does an Election in Vermont Suggest a Changing Political Reality?

There are a handful of issues in American politics that consistently enflame passions, aggravate divisions, and defy solutions. Debates over the death penalty, abortion, and Second Amendment protection call into question our basic understanding of life and its relation to … Continue reading

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