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tammywammy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-27-05 02:51 PM
Response to Reply #47
48. Yes, I think there's always a "conflict of interest"
If my father and mother are in an accident, and my mother dies, I have a conflict of interest. I'm my father's only child, he has no will (as of a couple of months ago, so I'm not sure now), and he has life insurance.

As an able bodied adult, and his next-of-kin in this situation, should I not be able to make decisions regarding the care of my father?

There's that life insurance money, so maybe I'd want him taken off of life support b/c of that, or is it b/c I know that he wouldn't want to live like that?

Maybe I'm naive, I like to assume that most people do what they think the incapacitated person wants, not because of the lure of the money.
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