I am currently in a course to become of certified nursing assistant as a prerequisite to nursing school. We recently went of dealth and dying in our class and this brought up the question of wills and living wills (also called advanced directives). So, my question to you all is have you made this documents and why or why not. Just for fun I'll put in a poll.
it crosses my mind from time to time to make something up....but i dont have much to give or write in my will...i have no money that is in my own account...the kids have their accoutns and my husband and i have a joint...we rent..so no house to leave for anyone...so i have never actually written anything down
When I was going into the hospital I made an advance directive. I already had a will. I made sure that the executor of my will and my eldest son knew account numbers and where everything was.
One of the difficult things about making an advance directive is getting your family to sit down and talk about it. They just don't want to face up to it, and they will put you off saying "yeah, but you're gonna be JUST FINE DON'T WORRY".
I have a modified Roman Catholic view of the sanctity and dignity of life, and I wanted to be sure my boys did too. I would not want a feeding tube in a brain dead situation, but I would not want everything turned off if there was some chance of real consciousness. It was a very strained conversation.
We have a will; got one when we had children. We have nothing per se for them to inherit. . .but wanted to be clear about where they would go should something suddenly happen to both of us.
We also have an advanced directive. Got that after I nearly died giving birth. It's odd bc I consider my dh and I to be very close. . .and I had no idea what he'd want done and vice versa.
It's important with an advance directive to give the person who would have power to make the decision a copy - and to give the hospital a copy when you are admitted.
I knew that my son would be getting one piece of advice (ie what I want) from my friend, but he would likely have had a morbidly different piece of advice from my ex. Along the lines of put the old girl out of her misery.
I'm not old, and if I am to be miserable I deserve to live and have my family make me comfortable!
We have neither here. Hubby and I actually want to do the same thing after our deaths. We both wish to be cremated and our ashes mixed and scattered in the places we loved. However we really haven't put anything into effect shall we both go at once while the children are still young. We've thought about splitting the custody of the kids between my sister and his brother because neither one has any children.
I don't have anything & no need for a will yet.
If I am to get together with my guy,I have told him to already have his will sorted but found out it'd need to be redone once we are together.I don't have a problem with him keeping the will as the same,as there's very little that needs changing.I just need to be informed of what he wants done,so that I know.
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We don't have either yet but have discussed it in great detail. We both know we need to get our butts in gear and nail all that stuff down. It just seems so "final" when you put it all out there on paper.
Wills and Advanced Directives
It's odd bc I consider my dh and I to be very close. . .and I had no idea what he'd want done and vice versa.
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