Ultimate Concerns -- Death & Dying

These pages on Seniors-Site are dedicated to providing information on a most difficult subject -- death. Yet death is an inevitable. We suggest you become aquainted with the information provided especially if you are responsible for making life & death decisions for others.

Bulletins -- input from senior citizens.
Difficult Decisions -- questions of life and death you as a senior citizen may need to make..
Life-Sustaining Decisions -- and the caregivers -- the difficulties faced.
Glossary -- terms used in medical and life-sustaining treatments you need to know.
Patient Classifications - more uncertainties
Hospice -- help for a person to die in their own home.
Hospice Help> -- a resource list of people with whom hospice patients might wish to correspond.

Life-Support Technologies
Mechanical ventilation-- machine-assisted breathing.
Resuscitation -- life support for a person in cardiac arrest.
Renal dialysis -- helping impaired kidneys
Nutritional Support and Hydration -- countering malnutrition and the loss of fluids.
Antibiotics -- life-sustaining technology important to the terminally ill.

On Funerals
Planning For The Eventual Tomorrow -- funerals, your choices including memorial services?.
Recording Your Last Wishes -- important information to leave in the event of your death.
The Federal Funeral Rule -- protection against unscrupulous funeral providers.
Cemeteries -- buriel plot, vault, grave marker?
Death Benefits -- Social Security, veterans, other benefits.

Other Websites -- information on death & dying.