{"id":19405,"date":"2025-12-26T05:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/how-end-of-life-planning-can-be-a-gift\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T05:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:51:09","slug":"how-end-of-life-planning-can-be-a-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/?p=19405","title":{"rendered":"How end-of-life planning can be a gift"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a work of fiction. I directed Mrs. Powell to sit and make herself comfortable. She lowered herself into the chair at the round table in the lobby of my office slowly, her frail, 90-year-old frame eventually settling into it. \u201cHow\u2019s your health, Mrs. Powell?\u201d I asked. This is how I approached most conversations<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/how-end-of-life-planning-can-be-a-gift.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/how-end-of-life-planning-can-be-a-gift.html\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">How end-of-life planning can be a gift<\/a> originally appeared in <a rel=\"follow noopener\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">KevinMD.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kevinmd.com\/2025\/12\/how-end-of-life-planning-can-be-a-gift.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read full article at source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a work of fiction. I directed Mrs. Powell to sit and make herself comfortable. She lowered herself into the chair at the round table in the lobby of my office slowly, her frail, 90-year-old frame eventually settling into it. \u201cHow\u2019s your health, Mrs. Powell?\u201d I asked. This is how I approached most conversations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1747],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-lifestyle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pickbydoc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}