When someone we know is nearing death, how do we help them die with dignity? How do we help the family navigate the medical desire to preserve life at all cost? How can we prepare to die with dignity?
The real question is whether or not your religious values are in order now. Then they do not have to be discerned at the end of life. I encourage people in my congregation to have conversations with their families about what matters most in making decisions around end-of-life issues.
The church provides a very helpful document that guides family and friends through all the important considerations. It is Five Wishes, a document created by Aging with Dignity written with the help of The American Bar Associations? Commission on Law and Aging, and the nation?s leading experts in end-of-life care. It is a living will that expresses your personal, emotional and spiritual needs as well as your medical wishes when you become seriously ill. It meets the Tennessee requirements under law and a sample may be found at www.agingwithdignity.org.
It is also vital to have a durable power of attorney for health care indicating the person whom you want to makes decisions for you if you are not able to do so. In addition the church offers a Life Crises Form that allows a member to make known his or her requests for a memorial or funeral service, burial or cremation, etc. This document is kept on file at the church office.
The living will and durable power of attorney for health care should be kept with important legal documents, and copies given to family members, health care provider, lawyer and clergy. One person should not bear the responsibility of making difficult decisions regarding end-of-life care. In addition to family, you should discuss your concerns and expectations about dying with dignity with your minister and doctor. Both should understand, respect and support your values. This will make the navigation of medical decisions easier for all involved, and insulate family and friends at a vulnerable time from those who are tempted to impose their own agendas.
We should die as we lived, with the integrity of our deepest spiritual values. Essential to faith is coming to terms with the reality of mortality and what it means to create a life worth living knowing that it will end. The best way to love anything is to know that you will eventually lose it. It makes what we do matter. It informs us that what matters most is our relationship to things. This is a life-long process of spiritual development and it informs our dying as well as our living. Like training for the Olympics it is not something you can do in one week or month. We prepare for our death by knowing how to live.
Source: http://faithinmemphis.com/2011/10/08/prepare-for-death-by-knowing-how-to-live/
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