And Who’s Trusting You with Theirs?

Wednesday, June 8

In person and online
6:30 – 8 PM

We focus on the medical power of attorney, also called a health care proxy: the person we legally appoint to speak for us when we can’t. What do we need that person to know? Similarly, if we’re the proxy for someone else, what do we need to know from them? We’ll consider choosing a health care proxy for ourselves and what is means to be a proxy for others.

Through facilitated discussion in large and small groups we’ll think about the kinds of treatments we may want or not want, considering questions like quality of life versus longevity, what gives us joy, our concerns and our aspirations, and what we might compromise, or not.

Choosing the right proxy may be the most important decision you’ll make in completing your advance directive, the legal document that spells out your medical preferences if you cannot speak for yourself.

This workshop is Part 2 of our series, Talking About Death Won’t Kill You . . . and May Help You Live More Joyfully.

Talking About Death Won’t Kill You . . . and May Help You Live More Joyfully offers questions and insights, not a set of checkbox answers. Thinking about and planning for severe illness and end of life is a process that evolves over time, recognizing that we change, and that our attitudes, concerns, and desires may also change.

Through peer to peer learning and support, the series is aimed at demystifying and normalizing conversations about what matters most in our lives right through to the end, whenever that may be.

The series will resume in September with Part 3 focusing on dementia and other long-term debilitating illnesses, and Part 4 will offer a dying to-do list.

The series is supported with a grant from the NH Charitable Foundation.

Our events are for people at any stage of life and health. Honest conversation about death and dying can help give us meaning, purpose, and focus at any time of our lives – why not start now?