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Life & Legacy: Respecting Your Wishes
Friday, December 4, 2-4 pm
Parish Hall
Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd, 3820 The Oak Road Google Map

Everyone welcome. Registration is recommended. RSVP here or by emailing info@eastfallsvillage.org.

“We are all going to die. The people we love and care about will die. Unfortunately in American
culture, people are disturbed by the concept of death. It’s not something we want to talk about.
Well, we’re going to talk about it today.”

This is how Barbara Mancini begins The Right to Die: A Documentary, which recounts her
experiences with the deaths of her parents. In 2013, she was prosecuted for assisting in her
father’s suicide simply because she handed him his prescribed morphine. Her case made
national news and she was interviewed on 60 Minutes. In 2022, when her mother was dying,
she fought the doctors and hospital because they refused to honor her mother’s POLST
(Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment).

A POLST is different from an advance directive or a living will. It requires the doctor and patient
to have a thoughtful conversation, and for the doctor to sign a special hot pink form and wallet
card. Mancini has become an advocate for helping people think about their end-of-life wishes
and for ensuring that POLST wishes are honored.

The program will include a presentation by hospice nurse Mickey Ryan, a short video on Five
Wishes, a screening of The Right to Die, and Barbara Mancini explaining the POLST form. Copies
of the POLST form, Five Wishes, and the Resource Guide from Compassion & Choices will be
available.

Directions: The program will be held in the Parish Hall of the Memorial Church of the Good Shepherd, 3820 The Oak Road.
Park on The Oak Road.

Accessibility: There are eight steps up from the street and then four more into the Parish Hall. For wheelchair access, please email info@eastfallsvillage.org at least two days in advance.