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ABOUT OUR AUTHORS:

Hey, this is an important announcement—to all you who heard that I had died. Well, I think—No! In fact, your source of information wasn’t terribly accurate!

Of course, like so many of you, I’ve gone through a lot. A number of times I felt I was drowning in the cold and rough sea of despair.

Then there were those times I couldn’t feel at all--after a stroke, a  fall at the Austin airport,  a subdural hematoma, a seizure, an emergency craniotomy to  save my life, and eight days in a coma on  life  support. No wonder those rumors about my death were started.

But the real “death knell” came when I developed pneumonia. My marvelous doctors decided the risks were too great to keep me on life support. So they performed a bedside tracheotomy. Though I regained consciousness, the trach stayed in for about three weeks. Naturally, when my friends outside the hospital got the news that I, Joyce, hadn’t talked for a month, knowing me--many assumed I must be dead. So, other than the actual facts, it was a quite “well-founded” false rumor.

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NEW from
Margie Jenkins

My Personal Planner
Expanded Edition
for use with the book
You Only Die Once

My Personal Planner is a hands-on map that presents an exciting opportunity to create your own master end-of-life plan.  It provides checklists, surveys, forms to fill out, questions to answer, and guidelines to assist you in personalizing your plan.  This experience leads you step by step through the decision-making process.  It also gives you powerful input regarding how you want to be treated at the end.  You become a responsible participant in preparing for life's ending as a culmination of living well, instead of viewing death as an unplanned event.

Margie Jenkins is nationally recognized for her work with end-of-life planning issues and presents seminars across the country on this important topic.