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The Essential End-of-Life Plan: Two Decisions Everyone Should Make

22 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief talk, the speaker argues that every person should have a minimal end‑of‑life plan consisting of two core decisions. First, they should appoint a medical power of attorney—a trusted individual who can make healthcare choices when the person is incapacitated—and have a candid conversation about personal values and wishes. Second, they should decide on a disposition method for their remains, such as cremation, green burial, or newer options like human composting. The speaker stresses that both decisions are simple yet essential for ensuring one’s wishes are respected.

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I want every single person to have a basic bare bones end of life plan. And to me, that means you've named a medical power of attorney. So someone who's going to make decisions for you in the event that you cannot make them for yourself. And you're not only going to have decided who that person is, you're going to have had a conversation with them and you're going to have discussed what it is that your values are and You know, what it is that you envision yourself. And so you have a trusting relationship with them. The second part of the plan is your disposition method. So are you going to be cremated? Are you going to have a green burial? And there are many options. Again, human composting, people don't even know what that is. So those are the two very basic things that I think everyone needs to have decided on.