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Free Living Wills Available At Balloons Tunes And BBQ Festival This Weekend
Bowling Green, Ky. - Adults throughout the area will have a chance to make their final wishes known by completing living wills while attending the Balloons Tunes and BBQ Festival this weekend. This free and convenient opportunity to complete a living will is sponsored by Western Kentucky University’s Public Radio, WKYU-PBS and the Law Firm of Harned, Bachert and Denton.
From noon till 7 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. till 7 p.m. on Saturday, adults 18 years old or older can stop by the Western’s Public Broadcasting tent at the airport and receive information about Kentucky living wills. Staff and volunteers from Western’s Public Broadcasting and Harned, Bachert and Denton will be on-hand to help fill-out, sign and notarize living wills. Copies will be provided for the individual, their doctor and a family member or health care surrogate. The opportunity to get a free living will is being repeated this fall after a similar event earlier this year was so successful. Persons who wish to complete their living will must bring their Kentucky driver’s license and the names of two health care surrogates if they choose to name surrogates in their document. A health care surrogate is someone chosen to make health care decisions should the person become unable to do so. The Kentucky Living Will also has a section to indicate the preference for organ/tissue donation. After signing in, the process should only take a few minutes to complete. Those attending will get information and instructions about completing a living will. Their name and other necessary information will be printed on the living will form. Next, they will complete and initial their living will directive, the section that identifies what, if any, type of life-sustaining treatment they wish to receive. After the form is completed, the participant will sign and date it, it will be notarized, and copies will be made at the tent. Festival goers can return later to the tent to get their copies. In addition to offering free living wills, Western’s Public Broadcasting will also accept cash or check contributions for the hurricane relief efforts of the American Red Cross. The drop box will be located at the Western’s Public Broadcasting tent.
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