Have you ever wondered what would happen if you became incapacitated? Incapacity, or incompetency, means that you become either mentally or physically unable to take care of yourself or your day-to-day affairs. To be more precise, you would be unable to take care of your property and yourself and you would be unable to communicate rationally about decisions as to how to do this if you cannot.
Filed under: Wills & Estate Planning on April 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
The Los Angeles Times recently ran an article that talked about how religious belief drives some patients to fight for life, while others suffer more at the end of life because of their religion . The main character in this article is Holly Prigerson, director of the Center for Psycho-oncology and Palliative Care Research at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and the study’s senior author. The entire article is summed up in the final paragraph from that piece:
Filed under: Death & Dying on March 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »