End Of Life Planning

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Funerals are a $15-20 billion a year industry in this country. But ideas now vary widely about how to be memorialized. That is just one of the decisions we need to make for end-of-life planning. Wills, trusts and advance directives as well as granting power of attorney and choosing a guardian for your children are among the others. We talk with Attorney Nancy de Tarnowsky and Funeral Consumers Alliance Director Joshua Slocum about planning for the end of our lives.

A publication mentioned during the program was "My Affairs in Order." It is a 3-ring binder with sections for compiling important personal information including your attorney, accountant, life insurance, mortgage information, your Advanced Directive, will, power of attorney, etc. The author is Rosemarie Cartularo and she can be contacted at (802) 877-1529 or at myaffairsinorder@yahoo.com.

Plus deer season is underway for bow hunters in northern New York.  And since 1999, New York hunters have donated nearly 4 million tons of venison to hungry families through the Venison Donation Coalition.  That works out to 2,984,795 meals. This year the program hopes to break the three million meal mark.  Marc Usher, who’s been with the program since its start, fills us in on the details.

And, in his latest Report from Afghanistan, VPR’s Steve Zind takes a tour of a medical lab at Camp Phoenix in Kabul.

 

 

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