It’s My Choice Online, Inc. a national living will registry,
began when a highly publicized local family was in turmoil over the healthcare
choices of a beloved daughter and wife. Two friends, both healthcare
professionals, were discussing the importance of having an Advance Directive,
but more importantly, having it readily accessible to healthcare providers and
sparing the family members the anguish of having to make difficult
decisions. There is a very real need
for people to have a place for their Advance Directives to be available to
health care providers, so their choices can be recognized and respected.
It is important to make people aware that their decisions
for the end of their life should be expressed in advance so as to eliminate the
unnecessary hardship their families must go through when faced with deciding
for them.
People of all ages, not just the
elderly, should make their choices now and put in writing what they want and do not
want, while they are of sound mind and judgment and in the protection of the
law; Compos Mentis, In Gremio Legis.
Accidents happen every day. We usually think it will happen to the "other guy" and not you, however,
the reality is that sometimes you are the "other guy". There is no way for a family to be prepared for
this to happen to a loved one, however, if you have an Advance Directive
registered with It’s My Choice Online, Inc. this is one less burden for your
family to deal with should that time ever come.