Ashlea Ebeling
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2,002 appearances
38 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2022
last heard Feb 2025
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A basic will, your last will and testament, covers your assets, your real estate, your investment, what you want done with that at your death.
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A living will is a completely separate document, and it covers your health care decision-making, what you want done if you're unable to speak yourself.
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Right.
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It could be an accident or it could be a coma or a degenerative disease.
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If you're unable to tell the doctor what you want, you can say whether you want all life-saving measures taken or whether you, for example, don't want certain medical care.
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Yes, you would want both.
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People feel really strongly about what kind of care they would want if they had an accident or a serious chronic illness.
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The living will spells that out.
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It would say whether you want all means taken to save your life or the other extreme, whether you refuse medical treatment.
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About a third of people have these living wills that state their health care wishes.
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It goes up to about a half for older people, but that still tells you half of the people don't have them.
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What other types of details are typically in one?
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It could spell out on the medical side if you want artificial hydration and nutrition, for example.
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It can also spell out on the softer side things like how you want –
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your comfort care if you want harp music, for example, or if you do or don't want a chaplain visit in the hospital.
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The tricky thing is states have different names for these documents.
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And in most states, there's one overall form called an advance directive, and that includes a section that's the living will.
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And it has another section called a health care proxy, where you name someone to make decisions for you if you can't.
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That person then is...
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supposed to follow the living will that you wrote out.
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