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An Ethical Will - A Search For Something Better
For The Dying Process
A Search For Something Better For The Dying Process |
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This is a recording of your personal thoughts and wishes about
your life history for your family and friends.
How Do You Tell What Your Life Means? -
- What if you only had a few minutes to live. What would you
say? What would you do?
- Questions to think about? How would you want to be remembered?
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- What would you want to tell your family about your
philosophy of life, recommendations about quality of life and
living, and your personal experiences?
- What would you want to tell your family about your life as a testament to your loved ones?
The ethical will offers you a way to express yourself on what you wish your family to remember you by.
It is a common wish that when you die, you wish for your family to live long, healthy and prosperous - your children and their children are those who will probably continue your legacy of life.
We, in truth, are most lucky people in the world. We represent less than 1% of the world, and we have so much to be grateful for. Our goblet is not half full: it is really flowing over. We all know that we are mortal and that at some future time, we are going to die. In contrast to animals, who do not know they are going to die, their life span, in part, depends on predators, available food, and teeth to eat food. Some animals die when their teeth wear out.
There comes a time in everyone's life when death becomes inevitable. The time period can be very short or long, when one goes through that last phase in life, which has been called the last mile. I can vividly remember seeing a movie featuring the famous James Cagney about death row in San Quentin prison. The priest asked Cagney to walk fearfully and terrified down the long corridor as an example to other prisoners that crime does not pay. The prisoner, Cagney, demonstrated fear and shaking feet.
This can be pictured as a similar experience to those who are critically ill and are also facing death with a critical life-threatening illness or in a preterminal state. It has to be a very threatening, lonely and terrifying experience. Each of us may think we know how we will feel and act, but since few have experienced a pre-terminal ot terminal state, and none have returned from the dead, we really don't know what this experience is like.
Each of us may think that we will know how we will act and feel, but that is not always the case. How will we act - trembling, fearful, brave, or lacking courage? You don't know what it is really like to be in the shoes of someone else unless you have had that special experience yourself.
We live in a society that often demands instant gratification and happiness and tries to deny the reality of death. We are conditioned to deny death; thus, many persons, who are in the process of dying, feel confused and often have guilty feelings that they have not thought of or prepared for death.
We feel that by preparing more fully for death that it will allow us to live better. Each person faces their life and their death in a very individual way, and somehow those who have achieved certain satisfaction in the way they have lived and have gained gratification in what they have done, I feel, often face death with more equanimity, less fear, through the grace of living. As one survives each incidence, one may be given another to live and to adapt into a new career or way of life.
What you could leave are your intangible memories to future generations, which could be your legacy of life. Great men have often trembled as death approached, and it is said that we all fear death, especially when it is about to happen. Why such fear? Were our sins so great, and what was the price for success?
The way one has developed coping and attitude skills will affect how one copes in the present and the future. If, for example, one becomes very negative, one may react to bad (or good) news with an attitude with a change after a thoughtful process of mechanisms to help through coping mechanisms and hope. One has to evolve a process of coping by dealing with each problem and trying to find the best solutions on how to live to our fullest capacity.
A Search For Something Better For The Dying Process
Life and Death Issues
Choices In Preparing For Your Mortality
Advanced Directive
Decisions For Making Life Easier For Those You Love! -
The Legacy of Love
Medical Emergency Information -
A Simple Card
Conclusion - Life and Death
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