Learn secrets about your living will choices that will protect your well-being … and your family … at the most difficult time you’ll ever face …

Let me send you a free printable living will so you can see for yourself what crucial facts you must have to make your living will decisions …

Facts you can’t get from your lawyer, your doctor, even Google (until I show you exactly where to look) …

Most shocking of all ... if you are like most people ... you probably don’t know that the secret to getting better health care NOW ... starts with making your living will choices ... but NOT a living will!

Dear friends in the U.S.A., AND every country that recognizes living wills,

I’m angry — and you will be, too — about the merry-go-round ride you get when you want to fill out your living will (also called an “advance directive”) … one of the most important legal documents you can have to safeguard yourself and your family. The ride starts with your lawyer.

Why your lawyer cannot advise you

A living will is a legal document. And your lawyer does plenty to help you with your last will and testament, estate planning, creating living trusts, and all the rest of the planning you have to do to be sure your financial affairs are handled the way you want when you’re gone.

So why can’t your lawyer explain your living will choices?

Because living will choices have to do with medical conditions. Your lawyer is licensed to practice law, not medicine.

So your lawyer tells you, “If you need help with understanding your living will choices, just ask your doctor.”

I have news for you. Your doctor wants to tell you as little as possible.

Why your doctor won’t advise you

First, doctors must deal in facts, not speculation. They must treat the problem in front of them. The choices in a living will all have to do with end-of-life care. Until the doctor has just told you, “I’m sorry, there’s nothing more I can do,” you do not have much chance of getting full and frank information out of your doctor.

You see, there’s no benefit to your doctor to explaining your living will choices to you when you have many months, years or decades to live. But there ARE plenty of dangers:

And, frankly, there are two more really big problems with the idea that your doctor can help you. First, your doctor does not have the time to educate you on things that … way in the future … might or might not happen. Second — and this one’s a shocker — most doctors really don’t understand the living will choices themselves. Only a few medical specialties deal regularly with those issues. (If more doctors understood the specialty of end-of-life care, they would lead the opposition against assisted suicide and euthanasia.)

Plus, doctors do NOT want to go through your emotional process about dying any sooner than they have to. Who can blame them?

So they will reassure you and put off the conversation.

So what most people get from their doctors … if they get any answers at all … is little bits of information … a promise to discuss the matter more fully in the future … and maybe advice to consult their spiritual advisor.

What happens when you consult your spiritual advisor?

You probably already know what your religion would tell you what to do. For many people, the living-will-decision merry-go-round stops with the answers their religion provides them. And that’s fine.

But if your religion … or your personal beliefs … support you in making your own decisions about your living will choices — your end-of-life care — then you are likely to wind up like most Americans … knowing that having a living will is one of the most important things you can do for yourself and your family … but just never having enough facts to feel confident about making them.

Vague living will choices are confusing

California’s living will (called “Instructions for Health Care”) seems so simple … so easy. Here’s the most crucial choice:

(a) Choice Not To Prolong

OR

(b) Choice To Prolong

Huh?

These choices are vague. Your family is going to want to know more about what you thought about the different treatment options that they will be asked to choose for you. After all, when the time comes, the doctor will be extremely specific. Do you want CPR? Do you want to be put on a ventilator (a machine that breathes for you)? Do you want antibiotics? (Yes! That could be one of the choices!) You need to know the hard realities that lurk in these foggy choices.

And do you realize that “the likely risks and burdens of treatment” is a pleasant mask for decisions like, “Do you want a feeding tube if you are in end-stage Alzheimer’s disease and your brain is losing track of how to chew and swallow food?”

Will your family be able to answer these questions for you if you never knew enough about your living will choices to tell them? Will they all agree on the same answer?

Specific living will choices are even more confusing

Maryland’s living will form is much more specific. Here’s the first set of choices:

“If my death from a terminal condition is imminent and even if life-sustaining procedures are used there is no reasonable expectation of my recovery:

___ I direct that my life not be extended by life-sustaining procedures, including the administration of nutrition and hydration artificially.

___ I direct that my life not be extended by life-sustaining procedures, except that, if I am unable to take food by mouth, I wish to receive nutrition and hydration artificially.

___ I direct that, even in a terminal condition, I be given all available medical treatment in accordance with accepted health care standards.”

OK, let’s suppose you’ve ever been very hungry, or very thirsty. Was it comfortable? I didn’t think so. So are you enraged by the thought that you EVER would ask anyone to withhold food or water from you? ESPECIALLY when you are dying?

Actually, there ARE good reasons. But you have to know them. Your family has to know them. And your family has to know you knew them … when the time comes.

Here’s big secret #1 about living wills

It’s easier to find instructions for building a hydrogen bomb online than it is to find out the real reasons that you have the option to decide whether or not you want artificial nutrition and hydration — a feeding tube — as part of your end-of-life care. When is a feeding tube a gift of life? When is a feeding tube an instrument of torture? How does that apply to YOU?

You might think you can Google your way to being informed. I thought so, too … and learned the hard way … even if you can find information … after spending hours and hours and hours, for weeks, even months … it’s not likely to apply to your situation … so it does you no good at all.

So how are you supposed to know what treatments you would want … or would refuse?

And where does that leave you when you live in a state like New York? Under New York law, only YOU can make the decision whether you will want a feeding tube as part of your end-of-life care AND you must leave “clear and convincing” evidence of your choice.

That’s the living will merry-go-round … “Make your living will decisions!” experts say. And they are right — there truly can be terrible consequences for you and your family if you don’t. But when you ask them for guidance on YOUR situation … they send you in circles … wrap you in fog … give you a few scraps of fact with no context or connection to you … or just change the subject. Now do you see why most people never do it?

When the stakes are so high, do you really want to just hope for the best?

Here’s big secret #2 about living wills

Another shocking secret about living wills is that they are the WRONG answer for most people!

That’s because you need to be asking the right question in the first place.

The right question is, “What legal document do I need to receive better care from NOW right through to the end of my life — whether I have days, or decades, to live?”

And the next question to ask is, “How can I make sure that document is tailored to my needs?”

You see, when you have secured good LIFE care, that’s the foundation for good end-of-life care.

When you understand your living will choices,
you can make a better life for yourself NOW

It may seem odd that you can have a much better life if you understand your living will choices than you can if you don’t.

But it’s true. You see, TV and movies have put a picture in our heads about how our lives will probably end. And you may think that’s all there is.

That’s not true. You can do, much, MUCH better, if only you know how. Understanding your living will choices is the key.

And when you do, I believe you will be amazed at how much more courageous you feel about every challenge you may face in the future. You’ll be amazed at how much sweeter life is when you feel confident that you have the knowledge to live ALL your time fully.

Life gives you its most amazing gifts …
but only if you know how to ask

Life holds some of its most amazing gifts until the end. You see, when you have fought bravely for your life for as long as you can … when you have fought until your doctor tells you there’s nothing more anyone can do … a flood of healing can still come to you.

It’s emotional healing. It’s spiritual healing.

Science can’t explain it. Money can’t buy it. Fame can’t attract it. Power can’t command it. But YOU can have it all the same, no matter how humble your station in life.

When you understand your living will choices … plus additional crucial knowledge I will give you … you will feel as sure as anyone can that … no matter what your symptoms … you will be comfortable … dignified … and unafraid in your final days.

And here are the gifts that will come … the company of your family … and your friends … a sense of peace … and the time to say the most important things … “I love you” … “I forgive you” … “Please forgive me” … “Thank you” … “I’m grateful.”

How can these amazing gifts of life be yours?

I have put all these secrets —and more — into my book, Living Will Secrets Revealed.

Cynthia Yockey is the author of the first edition of “Best Friends for Life,” the most authoritative guide on the rights of people with disabilities to keep animals in all forms of “no pets” housing. Now in its second edition, it is published by the Doris Day Animal League.

I share with you knowledge that I uncovered during more than 20 years of caring for the love of my life, who had multiple sclerosis, over a full spectrum of disability from her limited ability to walk when we met in 1984 to quadriplegia for the last 10 years of her life. The need that people feel for this type of knowledge is now fueling one of the fastest-growing fields in medicine: consultants who act as patient advocates, at hefty fees, navigating their clients through the health care system.

While I was caring for my life partner, I was amazed at how often the experts just didn’t know what they were paid to know. There was a simple reason — the bad thing their knowledge was supposed to prevent happened to us, not them. There was no consequence to them whether they succeeded or failed. And they got paid either way. So I learned to research, dig, check. Because failure was not an option for me. I HAD to find the best result. My darling’s life depended on it.

So does yours.

There’s no other book like it

There are only a few books that try to help you with your living will decisions. But they are just too vague. They remind me of what it feels like to have to drive at highway speed from bright sunlight into a pitch dark tunnel — white-knuckle frightening. Because, rest assured, when you really have to tell the doctor what to do, everything is going to come at you fast. You are not going to have a lot of time to gather facts and ponder options.

There’s no better guide to understanding your living will choices than Living Will Secrets Revealed by Cynthia Yockey. She is a tried and true advocate for people with disabilities. I recommend this book to everyone.” Paul Holland The Wheelchair Society Silver Spring, MD

I learned this from hard experience. And I learned that everyone needs to have the facts about their living will choices presented to them from the point of view of their own diagnosis, or likely situation. That’s why my book trusts you to handle detailed knowledge that no one else will give you. And that’s why my book presents the knowledge you need from several angles to ensure you can match it to your own experience and needs.

There is absolutely NO risk to you!

I guarantee your satisfaction with Living Will Secrets Revealed for one full year from the date of purchase. That’s right — a whole year! I just ask you to understand one thing: this book is not a substitute for advice from your doctor or your lawyer. But, after reading it, you’ll know a lot more about how to work with your doctor or lawyer effectively — and you’ll be amazed at how much more they will respect you for your new knowledge.

This knowledge is so crucial to your well-being RIGHT NOW that I want you to feel confident that you can check it out with NO risk. That’s right — I’m taking all the risk! If you buy Living Will Secrets Revealed and it does not deliver the security and empowerment I have promised you, then I will personally refund your money NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!! And you have a whole year to decide!

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I’m already looking forward to getting an e-mail from you telling me about your successes in getting better health care now, the security you feel about your medical future and how your new outlook is changing your life — and the lives of your loved ones.

Warmest regards,

Cynthia Yockey

P.S.

If you want to find all this information on your own and figure it all out for yourself, I promise it will take you a lot longer than a month of Sundays! Save yourself the time and frustration — to say nothing of heartbreak. Absolutely NOTHING in the free information and forms your state government provides you comes close to telling you what you need to know about making your living will choices — and NONE of it tells you how to create an advance directive that can get you better health care IMMEDIATELY. But I do!

P.P.S.

Remember, there is absolutely NO risk to you! You have an entire YEAR to read and study everything in Living Will Secrets Revealed AND the EIGHT FREE BONUS REPORTS. If you are not satisfied at any time for one year from your date of purchase, I will refund your money NO QUESTIONS ASKED!!! But the pre-publication discount price will NOT last!

P.P.P.S.

If you live in a country that permits living wills, advance directives, health care declarations, durable health care powers of attorney, durable medical powers of attorney, whatever name they go by — OR you live any place where people do not live forever — then YOU NEED THIS BOOK, TOO! Why? Because EVERYONE needs to know as much as possible about their living will choices — also called end-of-life care choices — to feel confident NOW about the possibility ... or reality ... of living with a chronic illness ... or living with a disability ... or simply living to be very old.

You will be AMAZED at the facts I reveal that have been kept from you! If you’ve ever worried about losing control or being in pain at the end of your life, then you might even be OUTRAGED to find out there is a new field of medicine that wipes out all arguments for assisted suicide and euthanasia. You CAN get end-of-life care that empowers you without pushing you toward death — IF you know what to ask for — and I tell you what you need to know!

 

 

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