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What is Life Support?

These life support methods include CPR, which keeps blood and oxygen flowing throughout the body, electric shocks (called defibrillation) to get th...

What to Expect When Your Loved One is Dying

If seeing and talking to someone who isn't there makes the person who's dying happier, you don't need to try to convince them that they aren't real...

What is Hospice Care?

During an illness that is terminal, you or your loved ones may talk with your doctor and decide the treatments meant to cure or slow a disease are ...

Getting Your Affairs in Order

Most of us don't like to think about drawing up a will, signing 'do not resuscitate' orders, or planning funeral services. Designating someone to h...

Advance Directives

Whether you write a living will, choose a medical power of attorney, or both, you will need to make those decisions legally binding, in writing. Th...