{"id":204,"date":"2015-05-18T12:44:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T16:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/?p=204"},"modified":"2015-05-18T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T19:16:17","slug":"dont-put-them-through-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/dont-put-them-through-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Put Them Through It!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hospital_150.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-205 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/hospital_150.jpg\" alt=\"hospital_150\" width=\"150\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>May 18, 2015 The man sitting in the hospital room in the picture is the husband. \u00a0The wife is unconscious in the hospital bed. \u00a0It could be children in the room with no spouse present. \u00a0On occasion, <!--more-->there may be no immediate family at all.<\/p>\n<p>What does the person want done in a terminal illness? The most obvious question is &#8220;pull the plug?&#8221; Without reaching that final question, there may be intermediate questions such as whether to consent to surgery, what level of surgery, whether to provide hydration (water), whether to provide nutrition, or both &#8211; or whether to do everything possible to prolong life.<\/p>\n<p>All of these questions can be most difficult for another to decide. So, why don&#8217;t you simply go ahead and make the decisions now, for yourself, and not put your spouse or children through a heart wrenching ordeal?<\/p>\n<p>Think you have a long time before the question comes up? \u00a0What about a car wreck? \u00a0An accident of another sort? Unknown illness? \u00a0There may not be time.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the Georgia Legislature has provided a form which you can use. Whether or not this form is appropriate is not something which I as a judge can state. \u00a0One always can benefit from competent, experienced legal advice. I can, however, give you the information to locate the form.<\/p>\n<p>You are seeking the following code section: \u00a031-32-4.<\/p>\n<p>You may access Georgia Law for free through the Georgia Legislative site. \u00a0The link is:\u00a0<a title=\"Official Code of Georgia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lexis-nexis.com\/hottopics\/gacode\/Default.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Official Code of Georgia.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note that you should also read the code sections accompanying this form for definitions and other matters. \u00a0Again, the advice of an experienced attorney is always most beneficial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 18, 2015 The man sitting in the hospital room in the picture is the husband. \u00a0The wife is unconscious in the hospital bed. \u00a0It could be children in the room with no spouse present. \u00a0On occasion,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-documents","8":"category-planning","9":"category-resources","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214,"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/judgejordan.com\/judgeblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}