{"id":16366,"date":"2020-06-30T13:32:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16366"},"modified":"2020-06-30T13:32:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:32:06","slug":"end-of-life-planning-is-a-lifetime-gift-to-your-loved-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16366","title":{"rendered":"End-Of-Life Planning Is A &#8216;Lifetime Gift&#8217; To Your Loved Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Kavitha Cardoza for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Talking about death makes most of us uncomfortable, so we don&#8217;t plan for it.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a big mistake, because if you don&#8217;t have an end-of-life plan, your state&#8217;s laws decide who gets everything you own. A doctor you&#8217;ve never met could decide how you spend your last moments, and your loved ones could be saddled with untangling an expensive legal mess after you die.\u00a0 Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/06\/26\/884051182\/end-of-life-planning-is-a-lifetime-gift-to-your-loved-ones\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By\u00a0Kavitha Cardoza for NPR) Talking about death makes most of us uncomfortable, so we don&#8217;t plan for it. That&#8217;s a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-end-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16367,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16366\/revisions\/16367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}