Life Choices

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Table of Contents

1. JAY NIXON'S MESSAGE
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. COMMUNICATING ABOUT END OF LIFE
   1. Introduction
   2. Life planning work sheet
   3. Advance directives
      1. Durable power of attorney for health care choices
      2. Health care choices directive
      3. Durable power of attorney for health care choices & health care choices directive (6 page form)
      4. Living wills
   4. Understanding life-sustaining treatments
      1. CPR
      2. Respirator/ventilator
      3. Artificial nutrition and hydration
      4. Pain management
      5. Hospice care
      6. Choosing hospice care
4. FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS
   1. Wills
   2. Self-proving will form
   3. Personal representative
   4. Who receives your estate
   5. Living trusts
   6. Non-probate transfers
   7. Real estate transfers
   8. Power of attorney
   9. Durable power of attorney
   10. Personal custodian
   11. Guardianship and conservatorship
5. WHEN YOUR LOVED ONE DIES
   1. Funeral arrangements
      1. Pre-paid funerals
      2. Know your pre-need funeral plan
      3. Know who is selling the plan
      4. Know where your money goes
      5. Embalming
      6. Cremation
      7. Funeral notices
      8. Benefits payable upon death
      9. Obtaining a death certificate
      10. Military honors
      11. Safety concerns
   2. Financial matters
      1. Stocks and bonds
      2. Safe deposit boxes
      3. Life insurance
      4. Property inventory
      5. Transfer of property
      6. Taxes
6. Organ and body donation
   1. Organ donor registry
7. RESOURCES
   1. Special recogniton; Where to find more information about advance care planning
   2. Terms
   3. Where to get copies of Life Choices

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