Raise your hand if your days
consist of ZERO planning!
Seeing no hands in the air I’ll
assume each of you – as do I, plan for literally almost everything in
life. We plan for all of life’s significant happenings – weddings,
births, careers, ……and, amazingly we also plan for life’s little necessities –
grocery shopping, haircuts, RAZORBACK football season & tailgating, ... so
WHY is it the majority of us DO NOT plan in advance for our wishes at the end
of our life?
What type of care you’d like or
not like at the end of your life is not necessarily a discussion that will make
you “the life of the party”. However, it is a discussion that will allow
your loved ones to honor your wishes and to lessen the decision making for them
in a time that is painful enough. Like it or not the day will come
for all of us and those we love to part from this planet. We know
this as certain as we know we must pay taxes. One difference in the two
is that we know the day which are taxes are due and we know not the time we
will be faced with acknowledging our days on earth are limited.
I challenge each of YOU to PLAN
for what is one of the most important times of your life and in the life of
your loved ones. Circle of Life Hospice provides a very simple
program, “Five Wishes,” that assists you with advanced directive planning. Or I also encourage you to
access The Conversation Project, a website dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. Either program provides
you “step by step” assistance in answering the questions necessary to ensure you’ve addressed everything to honor your end of
life wishes.
Count on Circle of Life to
support you however we may in this planning process as we believe YOUR wishes
should be honored and clearly we believe in the value of planning for your
future.
