{"id":45,"date":"2015-07-18T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T14:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myepitchat.com\/blog\/?p=45"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:56:14","slug":"why-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/why-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Start Planning for End Of Life Now ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why now start planning for my end of life now? you may ask.<\/span><\/p>\n

What better time for me?\u00a0 My 60th birthday is on the horizon and is just a few weeks away.\u00a0 As I look ahead to my 6th decade I can’t help but feel it will be my decade of major changes.\u00a0 Factors include income, health,\u00a0 living arrangements and foremost in my mind lies the question “just how many good years do I have left”?\u00a0 Milestones of 30, 40 and then 50 were met with little introspection.<\/span><\/p>\n

As silly as it may sound I did not connect those numbers to the reality that 1\/2 my life was over and moving forward meant less time left.\u00a0 Perhaps it was immaturity on my part or just flat out denial in my consciousness that at some point ahead life ends.\u00a0 With age,\u00a0 health declines and the quality of life diminishes. \u00a0 Now,\u00a0 my consciousness has fully accepted that my death is absolute and my declining health with age is most likely to occur.\u00a0\u00a0 What becomes of me when these events occur?\u00a0 What impact will it have on my love ones?
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Make a Plan<\/span><\/p>\n

What life has shown me to-date is that it is better to have a plan than not.\u00a0 Both my husband and I were beneficiaries of\u00a0 good, solid, well thought out plans that our mothers (having survived their husbands) had made before they became ill, and long before death was upon them.\u00a0 They each prepared living wills (end-of-life medical directives to physicians and care givers)\u00a0 in addition to their final wills.\u00a0 These documents were invaluable in administering their care when both became terminally ill. Having these documents in place\u00a0 prevented emotional conflict and guess work and minimized fighting amongst family members when handling their affairs.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

My husband and I were born into families with 6 children each.\u00a0 Each of our siblings were married.\u00a0 So in each instance there were at least 12 adults sitting at the table.\u00a0 Imagine the chaos (the\u00a0 high emotions of such a group of sorrowful mournful souls, each with their own views of how things should be handled) if there was no plan in place?\u00a0 Honoring the wishes and desires\u00a0 expressed in writing by the the deceased prevents so much heartache and conflict to those you love and leave behind.\u00a0 I’m thinking what a lovely final gift our mothers gave to us.\u00a0 I’m writing my plan today to give my loved ones the same loving final gift.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

So, in answering the question ,”Why now”?, the best answer I offer is “Why not now”?\u00a0 Make your plan now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Why now start planning for my end of life now? you may ask. What better time for me?\u00a0 My 60th birthday is on the horizon and is just a few weeks away.\u00a0 As I look ahead to my 6th decade I can’t help but feel it will be my decade of major changes.\u00a0 Factors include … Continue reading Why Start Planning for End Of Life Now ?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/52"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myepitchat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}