#advanceddirective — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2024/01/21/aging-drivers-accidents-dementia/ (gifted)

"Nearly 50 million people 65 and older held driver’s licenses in 2021, a 38 percent increase from 2012, according to data compiled by AAA. Almost 19 million were 75 or older, a rise of 31 percent. In that same period, motor vehicle deaths among people 65 and older increased 34 percent, reaching 7,489 in 2021. The number of seniors injured in vehicle crashes that year exceeded 266,000, according to the U.S. Transportation Department."

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Would you want CPR?

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https://cnmri.com/2023/06/01/do-you-want-cpr/

I have composed exactly one poem in my life, and here it is:

Comfort Measures

Let it be dignified, they say.
No embarrassment, don’t overstay.
Don’t be caught dead in white after Labor Day,
or alive, incontinent, after eighty.

If we have any say when it comes for me,
forget antiseptic dignity.
And whether I go gentle or I rage,
let me savor every
viscous, pungent, searing drop
of filthy life and age
and love,
uncontained.

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@religion
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#ICU
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