INDIANA CHAPTER

P.O.BOX 7181

BLOOMINGTON, IN 47407

CCMILLER@BLUEMARBLE.NET

Workshop on April 26th - See Details Below !

WELCOME TO OUR INDIANA CHAPTER !

For more information about our national organization, please go to www.compassionandchoices.org

For some, death comes without warning and pain is brief. For others, death may come only after an agonizing, protracted illness. Compassion & Choices of Indiana believes that we all deserve a peaceful death with dignity. It defends the right of mentally competent adults to have advance directives such as Living Wills and Do-Not-Resuscitate orders, these defended by our Health Care Power of Attorney representative. Ultimately, our final wishes should be clear, understood and honored by our loved ones and health care providers. Our organization also promoted legalized physician aid in dying as practiced in Oregon.

The 21 Major End-of-Life Decisions

To recognize that your days will end, and begin to plan your life on that basis...
To choose a physician who understands how you wish to die...
How to change-or not change-your lifestyle...
Whether or not to receive psychological or spiritual counseling...
To let your understanding of death intensify, and improve, your present relationships...
To learn to talk more comfortably about dying...
How you want to be remembered by family and friends...
Whether or not to draw up a Will...
To complete a Living Will so those around you will know what you want...
To name your Healthcare Power of Attorney advocates-one or more people who understand what you want-and don't want-done to you in a hospital...
To heal relationships...
Whether or not to carry life insurance...
Whether to obtain the support of a hospice to assist you until death occurs...
Where you would like to die...
Who you want, or don't want, at your bedside when you die...
To continue, or stop, eating...
To do those things you have been putting off...
To receive visitors during your illness, or not...
To contact Caring Friends (1-800-247-7421) early in your terminal illness

For more information, contact Compassion and Choices of Indiana - P.O. Box 7181, Bloomington, IN 47407

OR

Check our National Organization's Website by clicking on: www.compassionandchoices.org

END-OF-LIFE CHOICES

A workshop

MODERATED BY

DIANE KONDRAT

"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen

"The idea that I can probably manage to have a peaceful, dignified and relatively painless ending is a comfort."

"Big deal! I'm used to dust." Erma Bombeck's request for a gravestone epitaph.

Saturday, April 26, 1:30 p.m.

Unitarian Universalist Church

2120 N. Fee Lane (at 45/46 Bypass)

Bloomington, IN

Sponsored by Compassion & Choices of Indiana

a not for profit educational organization

www.Compassionandchoices-Indiana.org

For more information call (812) 334-1129

InterAction Theater, Inc.

www.interactiontheater.org

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According a recent Gallup Polls (April 2005 and June 2005) nearly 80% of adults nationwide would not want to exist in a persistent vegetative state, nearly 75% support assisted dying for people who are terminally ill when a disease or condition incurable or causes several pain.

But ONLY 40% HAVE A LIVING WILL.

Do you have one?

To Print Copy of Your Living Will / Advance Directives

follow the above link.

"End of Life Choices of Indiana" "Right to Die" "Miren Beristain" "Clarke Miller" "Hemlock Indiana" "Freedom to end your life"

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