A Pocket Living Will Can Save Your Life!

<h1>A Pocket Living Will Can Save Your Life!</h1>

by Steve Allen

<div align=justify>Hello, I'm Steve Allen. I'm called the Estate Planning Dr. Sometimes I feel like a doctor, especially lately. People have been asking about living wills. Since the Terri Schiavo fiasco in Florida where the Supreme Court, the President, Congress and everybody got involved in keeping Terri Schiavo alive which was essentially against her wishes. The written living will has become more important. Just to help out, I've come up with what we call the Pocket Living Will so you can have one that you keep on your possession. Now hospitals are required under federal law to ask you upon admission if you have a living will. If you do, they want a copy of it. Most people don't carry a living will with them, so we make one that is available to keep in your purse, your wallet or the glove box of a car so it will be readily available. Now let me tell you a little story about Maxine. She's one of my clients and I am one of her closest friends. She has a Pocket Living Will. One day, her postman notice that her mail had been building up in her mailbox. He got very concerned and called the police. The police came, broke the door in, went into her home and found Maxine laying unconscious in a corner. They didn't know who to contact, but then they noticed that there was a Pocket Living Will in her purse. In it was my name and phone number so they called me and I was able to give them directions to get her help. They took her to the hospital and because she had everything in writing, they knew what kind of medical attention she needed. She fully recovered and was able to make some of her own decisions later on. But if this Pocket Living Will had not been there, the police say they would not have known who to contact for medical instructions. And so we were very thankful that she had that with her. That shows you how important a Pocket Living Will can be. You do not know when you are going to need it. So it's a good think to have one prepared that you can have nearby in case there is an emergency. For more information about the Pocket Living Will, you can go to www.PocketLivingWill.com. There it will tell you how to obtain more information or even obtain your own Pocket Living Will. </div>

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		For more than 30 years, Steven W. Allen has been helping people 
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