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Spelling out your views for end-of-life care is a ‘spiritual’ act

c. 2013 Religion News Service

(RNS) At Thanksgiving family reunions this week, many adult children traveling home are in for a rough surprise: Mom or Grandpa is more frail, more confused, maybe more ill, than they realized.

Now what? Does anyone know what medical treatment they would want if they could no longer speak for themselves? Is it in writing? Where?