Blogging Your Health Wishes
An idea for a meme that the medbloggers could start: bloggers posting their wishes/advanced directives/durable powers of attorney. As with the Terry Schaivo mess, everyone was talking about people writing out (or discussing) their wishes with loved ones. With a simple blog entry, a person could provide a written document of their wishes. There’s 5 million bloggers out there, maybe it’d help?
Medbloggers could draft a template, define terms, and explain some possible scenarios, and then people could copy->paste and link to other people’s? Whatchya think? (I realize a durable power of attorney form would be more useful, but this could be a start?)
People post their five favorite songs, or favorite book, or favorite quote, why not something a little deeper? (They could password-protect the entry if they felt that it was too private for the general public.)
That’s great for those who aren’t posting anonymously. Many of us use this as a therapeutic tool and an outreach to others and rely on anonymity in order to speak freely.
I think it’s a good idea. Make it easy to fill out and kind of fun, and (obviously) have the final outcome easy to cut and paste into a blog entry.
Although there are a lot of people who post anonymously, there are scores and scores of people who do not, or have multiple blogs – some anonymous, some not.
Sounds interesting, but maybe a little too personal?