Rationing Health Care and Killing Grandma: Dying Dor's Way Radically Real Opinion Piece

Dor feels uniquely positioned to be radically real about sharing limited resources, especially health care. With medical costs as the #1 driver of personal bankruptcy -- and with the majority of bankruptcies among people with health insurance -- it is beyond time for every one of us to conduct end-of-life planning conversations with our loved ones.

Dor reads her opinion piece and asks us to have kitchen table conversations, to make them safe and sane spaces to deal with issues that will affect the living, the dying, and the surviving. Here are the five questions

1. Do your loved ones know your wishes around treatment and life extension? Have you documented them?
2. Would you want your life saved at all costs?
3. Would you say, “save me at all costs!” if you had to pay the bill?
4. Would you say, “Save me no matter what,” if it meant you used up the family resources leaving little or nothing for the living – and the dying – of your survivors?
5. What would it take to get that conversation started with someone in your family? Or with anyone who is safe for you to start death conversation?

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