We are welcoming Bill Simmons back to the Hemlock Society of San Diego. Bill is a retired attorney, former Hemlock Society board member, and end-of-life planning advocate. He will share his perspective on successful end-of-life planning and how to effectively use advance directives to secure your wishes.
During the webinar, Bill will:
– Provide an overview of advance directives, the importance of writing a letter to your agent, and considerations for dementia.
– Discuss how voluntarily stopping eating and drinking (VSED) and stopping eating and drinking are addressed in standard advance directives.
– Explain the laws in the United States that impact the inclusion of stopping eating and drinking in advance directives.
– Showcase his updated website, http://www.finalexodus.org, and how to use his resources in your end-of-life planning process.
Bill will take questions after his presentation, so bring your pressing end-of-life planning and advance directive queries.
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Webinar Speakers
William (Bill) Simmons (Attorney @Final Exodus)
William (Bill) Simmons became interested in end-of-life issues because as a lawyer he believed everyone needed an advance health care directive. He quickly learned that legal directives are not the most important end of life planning tool. What matters more are family discussions, hopefully preceded by some thinking and preparation.
Bill was a patient volunteer with San Diego Hospice and Scripps Hospital Hospice. He obtained a B.A. in music composition from Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa (1958), and a J.D. from Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, California (1964). In the 1970s, he directed the California agency limiting smog from vehicles. In the 1980s and 90s, he was a real estate broker with 70 agents. He used to backpack in the Sierra Nevada and now enjoys hiking the 40 trails in his San Diego community.
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