Living Will Workshop: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care

LIVING WILL WORKSHOP:

CREATING YOUR OWN ADVANCE DIRECTIVE FOR MEDICAL CARE

Facilitator:

James Park, existential philosopher

E-mail:
PARKx032@TC.UMN.EDU

Phone:

612-871-7275

Course description:

In preparing for our own deaths, we should to ask 24 basic Questions,
discuss them with our loved ones, put our decisions into writing, and appoint proxies.
This workshop will be an opportunity to meet with others who are asking the same Questions,
deciding their own medical ethics, and how they want to be treated at the end life.

"http:www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/Q-L-WILL.html"

Here are the 24 basic Questions on the Internet.
Each week we will discuss about 4 Questions.
The printed resource for this workshop is:"http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/AD-OUT-NET.html"

Your Last Year: Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
About 100 pages of this 250-page book are offered free of charge on the Internet.
This book will be available in class for $35.
But you can return it for $30 at the end of class." http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/LWW-EXCO.html">
See your options for owning or re-selling the book.
See a" http://www.tc.umn.edu/~parkx032/D-LWW.html"
comprehensive course description.
At the end of this workshop, participants will have written, signed, and witnessed
Advance Directives for Medical Care.
You are encouraged to attend with your proxy
and/or others who would be present at your bedside if you were to die this month.
If you do not die this year,
you can revise your Advance Directive every five years for the rest of your life.

FACILITATOR:

The workshop will be led by James Park,
an existential philosopher and medical ethicist.
He is the author of Your Last Year
and has led this seminar several times before.
Learn more about his career in"http://www.tc.umn.edu/%7Eparkx032/JP-AL-ED.html"

Adult Alternative Education, including several other possible classes.

CLASS TIMES:

Up to 7 sessions of 2 hours each,
arranged to suit participants.

CLASS DATES:

To be arranged to suit participants.
Join the e-mailing list for this class
to have your input about everything.

PLACE:

To be arranged to suit participants.

CLASS SIZE:

At least 10, no more than 20.