Here's The Beef

<>It’s not like you haven’t heard of one, right? I mean the whole country has heard of living wills and all adults pretty much know they should have one. Am I wrong? I work in a law office and about fifty-percent of our business is estate planning which includes Powers of Attorney and Living Wills. Now, everybody knows they need one. We have people come in all the time who are going to go into the hospital for surgery, etc. who suddenly wake up and decide, “oh, I’d better get this going now.”

So you got Terry Schiavo now, causing this huge uproar all over the United States and even in the BBC news with people saying, “Pull the tube!” or “No, that’s murder!” and speculating on whether she’d want to live that way or whether they’d want to live that way when it’s really none of their business but it was only HER business except she never MADE it her business and that’s why there’s this big mess now.

Her husband says that one evening in front of a movie she said she’d never want to live like that. Her friend says that one afternoon she said, “Where there’s life, there’s hope.” Who knows, and who cares. If there’s no living will, there’s just a big mess and she screwed up all of her rights by not taking them when she could and it sucks for her because maybe she’d just as soon be dead but maybe, just maybe she’d just as soon be alive. WE DON’T KNOW. And all it would have taken would have been fifteen minutes to execute a living will.

ARE YOU COVERED??? DO YOU HAVE YOUR LIVING WILL SET UP??? It doesn’t matter what you’ve told your spouse… what if your parents didn’t understand that. What if, by not having that living will, you have set it up so that there will always be bitterness between your spouse and your family or between your children. How stupid is that?

When a document is so simple, so inexpensive, and so easy to obtain, it’s just irresponsible and inexcusable not to have one. Look at the time, agony, mess and horror that’s been caused by one little Florida woman who didn’t bother to make a Living Will.