People don’t like talking about money. That’s why I started this site. You know what people like talking about even less? Death.
My wife and I have already filled out a generic advanced health directive, but I recently ran across something that seems better.
- Wish 1: The Person I Want to Make Care Decisions for Me When I Can’t.
- Wish 2: The Kind of Medical Treatment I Want or Don’t Want.
- Wish 3: How Comfortable I Want to Be.
- Wish 4: How I Want People to Treat Me.
- Wish 5: What I Want My Loved Ones to Know.
You can easily find “free” advanced healthcare directives online, but a lot of them pretty much come down to a checkbox of “prolong life no matter what” or “do not prolong life”. The best way to understand how Five Wishes is different is to read through this
In 42 states, Five Wishes meets the legal requirements for an advance directive. In the remaining 8 states (Alabama, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Utah), you will need to fill out some specific additional forms or mandatory notices to make it legal. Often it’s just an official form you have to attach.
There is a nominal fee of $5 for both the paper and online versions. Five Wishes was created by someone who worked in a hospice and realized that there are a lot of common questions to which your loved ones must often guess the answer. Why not answer them now? It is an enormous gift to both yourself and to them.
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