{"id":6048,"date":"2014-02-17T23:41:15","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T23:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=6048"},"modified":"2014-05-01T04:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T04:38:26","slug":"2014-03-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-23\/","title":{"rendered":"End of Life &#8211; Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Carol Ann Wegenast and Barbara Engdahl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-23\/\">End of Life &#8211; Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny<\/a><\/h3>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Carol Ann Wegenast and Barbara Engdahl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-23\/\">Carol Ann Wegenast and Barbara Engdahl<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 align=\"center\"><a title=\"Carol Ann Wegenast and Barbara Engdahl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-23\/\">March 23, 2014<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6069\" alt=\"Carol Ann Wegenast\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Carol-Ann-Wegenast.jpg\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Carol\u00a0Wegenast, a Physician\u2019s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) trainer for the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coalitionccc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.coalitionccc.org\/<\/a>)<wbr \/>, will present the\u00a0POLST\u00a0form. ThePOLST\u00a0is a medical order signed by the doctor and the patient giving YOU control about what kinds of medical treatments you do or do not want at the end of your life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Carol's Slides\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/3-23-14-POLST-Presentation.pdf\">Click here to view Carol&#8217;s Slides.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barbara\u00a0Engdahl\u00a0from Compassion and Choices (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.compassionandchoices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.<wbr \/>compassionandchoices.org\/<\/a>) will speak about the \u201cAdvance Health Care Directive\u201d with the new \u201cDementia Provision\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/92548867\" height=\"281\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/92548867\">Humanist Community Forum (2014-03-23): End of Life &#8211; Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user2798508\">Humanist Community-SiliconValley<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>End of Life &#8211; Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny Carol Ann Wegenast and Barbara Engdahl March 23, 2014 Carol\u00a0Wegenast, a Physician\u2019s Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) trainer for the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California (http:\/\/www.coalitionccc.org\/), will present the\u00a0POLST\u00a0form. ThePOLST\u00a0is a medical order signed by the doctor and the patient giving YOU &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2014-03-23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;End of Life &#8211; Know Your Options and Control Your Destiny&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[190,189,98,191],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6048"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6048\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}