http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/-t1.htm Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:58:40 GMT 10 http://hitskin.com/themes/12/58/20/i_logo.png http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/-t1.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/please-read-this-before-reading-any-of-the-wishes-here-or-posting-your-own-t18.htm jimenez First of all, I really hope and pray that no one will have to use these wishes or accomplish a form/write a decree similar to these “wishes”. Let's keep our fingers crossed. The purpose of this exercise is for you to reflect on your values with reference to making health care decisions that may significantly impact your life and other people's. It is also for you reflect on the relevance of Bioethics and have a first-hand experience on how to “handle” issues that (may) require ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:06:09 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/please-read-this-before-reading-any-of-the-wishes-here-or-posting-your-own-t18.htm#203 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/please-read-this-before-reading-any-of-the-wishes-here-or-posting-your-own-t18.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/hopefully-t20.htm de Guzman 1. Health Care Representative Like the others who posted their five wishes, I would still be making my own decisions when I still am in a sound body, meaning, I still am rational and can still speak and think for my own good. But in cases where I am no longer capable of doing such things, and decisions are needed right away, I would not want any of may parents, siblings, relatives, friends, and my future family to decide. Why? Like what Prof Jimenez stated, as my family and friends, I ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:26:10 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/hopefully-t20.htm#209 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/hopefully-t20.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-5-wishes-t19.htm jimenez Five Wishes 1. Health care representative -The person I want to make decisions for me: I will be making decisions for myself (like what I am already attempting to do here) but for other matters (like which doctor, which hospital), in the absence of any clear directive or of a clearly identified preference my family can decide on that. The health care agent I am assigning will come into play only in a situation where an 'end-of-life' decision may have to be made (i.e., whether to already ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:07:46 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-5-wishes-t19.htm#204 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-5-wishes-t19.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/please-post-yours-as-a-new-topic-t22.htm jimenez Apparently you don't read, tsk tsk.
This is to remind others to post your 'wishes' as a new topic. Do not reply, start a new topic.]]> 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Sun, 01 Mar 2009 08:37:40 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/please-post-yours-as-a-new-topic-t22.htm#213 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/please-post-yours-as-a-new-topic-t22.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/five-wishes-t24.htm ortiz Health Care Representative - As long as I am sensible, I would want to make decisions for myself. Otherwise, I would want Kuya Paeng to make them for me. Kuya has looked after me ever since mama and papa went overseas. He would know what to do. He cares for me to make me live as long as I could but he also loves me enough to know when to let me go. In case he also gone by then since he is much older than me, I would like my bestfriend to be my representative. She knows the things I believe ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:49:39 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/five-wishes-t24.htm#215 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/five-wishes-t24.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-five-wishes-t25.htm Pilarta-Lesly 1. Health Care Representative As long as I am still aware of what’s happening around me, I would prefer to decide myself. But in the event that I can no longer do it and my parents are still alive, I want them to decide for me. They looked after me and watched me grow from the very first wink of the eye until that day that I become incapacitated to discharge my responsibilities. I want my father to confront the situation alone although the decision be made by both of them. I don’t want ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Sun, 01 Mar 2009 13:14:34 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-five-wishes-t25.htm#216 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-five-wishes-t25.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/no-i-am-definitely-not-kidding-wishes-and-letter-to-death-and-to-you-t27.htm Azarraga I am going to write a very long explanation. One, to DEATH and another to the humans who would be reading this. Please don't avoid me after reading this. I know I am pretty weird, and it's high time you know that too. NUMBER ONE: TO DEATH Death, I know you hear me; you're probably behind my back right now, reading what I am currently typing. Please don't laugh. A letter to death [serves as an explanation to what I am going to write, bear with the idiosyncrasies and my ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:10:57 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/no-i-am-definitely-not-kidding-wishes-and-letter-to-death-and-to-you-t27.htm#218 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/no-i-am-definitely-not-kidding-wishes-and-letter-to-death-and-to-you-t27.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-five-hope-to-come-true-wishes-t28.htm tuason My Five Hope-To-Come-True Wishes 1. Health Care Representative Since I’m used to being independent and I believe that I can make accurate and sound decisions instantaneously, I want a full hand supervision over initial health care decisions for myself. Initial decisions may include which hospital I should be in and what treatment (how I hope, painless treatment ) I should have. My family will just come into the decision-making wherein surgeries and operations are involved. I want ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:16:47 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-five-hope-to-come-true-wishes-t28.htm#220 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/my-five-hope-to-come-true-wishes-t28.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/but-the-right-is-more-precious-than-peace-and-we-shall-fight-for-the-things-which-we-have-always-carried-nearest-our-hearts-woodrow-wilson-my-five-wishes-t30.htm Nicha [b]1. Health care representative – The person I want to make decisions for me: I've always been a person who, at times, is independent but a part of who I am now I owe to the persons who have influenced me directly or indirectly. Time passes so fast. One minute you're happy and one minute you're sad. Life is uncertain. I case something happens, my family will decide on which doctor or which hospital. They know what's best for me. I am assigning Loisa Patricia Pacalioga as my ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:11:10 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/but-the-right-is-more-precious-than-peace-and-we-shall-fight-for-the-things-which-we-have-always-carried-nearest-our-hearts-woodrow-wilson-my-five-wishes-t30.htm#222 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/but-the-right-is-more-precious-than-peace-and-we-shall-fight-for-the-things-which-we-have-always-carried-nearest-our-hearts-woodrow-wilson-my-five-wishes-t30.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/just-in-case-t34.htm montañoallan Five Wishes My wishes are valid as long as the unfortunate event happens when I am still single and my parents are still alive. Of course, when I am married and I already have sons and daughters, these wishes would be entirely different.. =) BUT THAT DOES NOT MEAN THAT I AM READY TO DIE NOW!!! I PLAN TO LIVE A VERY LONG LIFE. Actually, I find this activity very much dramatic. I am so much emotional when one talks of death, especially death of my loved ones. This would be, I think, the ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:34:23 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/just-in-case-t34.htm#226 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/just-in-case-t34.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/will-not-go-quietly-into-that-good-night-t37.htm Catindig, TJJFP When you are near death… 1. Who is the person you want to make care decisions for you when you can’t? When I am nearing death, the person I want to make care decisions for me would be my wife/daughter/son and a trusted doctor (a brod and someone very close to my family). To qualify my answer, I want the compassion and love of an immediate family member coupled with the critical eye of a trained physician to make my care decisions because ideally, they would balance each other ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:31:18 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/will-not-go-quietly-into-that-good-night-t37.htm#229 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/will-not-go-quietly-into-that-good-night-t37.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/you-live-you-learn-t38.htm Camunay "I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity." – GILDA RADNER 1. Health care representative -The person I want to make decisions for me: In case of a near-to-death case and other related issues regarding my health, ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:54:16 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/you-live-you-learn-t38.htm#230 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/you-live-you-learn-t38.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/five-wishes-t39.htm manalo Given that I am in a very grave condition and could no longer make rational and impartial decisions for my being, I am assigning my parents (my mama and papa) as my health care guardians. They have been very supportive and have never failed to shower me and my brothers unconditional love; they have been very patient in raising us as their children. They will be the soul persons to be approached when matters of life and death situation take place. My papa being a medical doctor himself, I believe, ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Tue, 03 Mar 2009 03:56:06 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/five-wishes-t39.htm#231 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/five-wishes-t39.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/till-my-death-t45.htm Mercado 1. Health care representative -The person I want to make decisions for me: During lapse of rationality or lack of consciousness resulting to my incapability in making choices for myself, I, hereby, entrust to Sr. Elizabeth Carranza of The Sisters of Our Lady of Sion a directive to be my health care representative in cases only of end-of-life decisions. The decision shall have legitimacy and power to authorize or refuse to authorize any viable medication or procedure. My immediate family ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:10:59 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/till-my-death-t45.htm#237 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/till-my-death-t45.htm http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/before-they-let-me-go-t50.htm Salinas The person I want to make care decisions for me when I can’t… At first, I chose any ethicist or a person who is knowledgeable on this kind of situation (perhaps an Instructor or Professor of Ethics or a Bioethicist) so that if the time comes to decide, both pros and cons of any decision would be considered and weighed rationally. Moreover, it would be easier to take the necessary steps since the one that is deciding in my behalf has no emotionally strings attached to me and that he is ... 5 WISHES: Advance Health Care Directives Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:58:40 GMT http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/before-they-let-me-go-t50.htm#242 http://ethics.forumotion.com/5-wishes-advance-health-care-directives-f12/before-they-let-me-go-t50.htm