Power of Attorney | Public Trustee
A Power of Attorney is a legal document that gives a person or an organisation the power to manage your assets and financial affairs while you are alive.
I can preemptively appoint someone. This is a 'sleeping' enduring power of attorney, and kicks in when a medical advisor decides I'm no longer able to manage my financial affairs.
If I don't have one, SACAT will appoint one for me.
About Advance Care Directives | SA Health
Used if I am [temporarily or permanently] considered unable to make my own decisions. Health care refusals are almost universally respected, and "um, no, don't take me to thinly-veiled conversion therapy [etc]" would be wise of me.
the cage is open. why are you still in there? – tala's blog
Often, the question isn't can I leave? (because the answer is almost always yes!) but why don't I? Ponder the question repeatedly, and you realize the answer roots in comfort and cowardice, the human talent of choosing a familiar suffering over uncertain relief.
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