What does an advance directive include?
An advance directive includes answers to questions such as:
• If your heart stops beating, do you want doctors to try to start it again?
• If you cannot breathe on your own, do you want a breathing machine to do it for you?
• If your kidneys no longer work, do you want dialysis? (This is a mechanical process that filters waste from the blood.)
• If you cannot eat or drink, do you want to get food and liquid through a tube?
• If you die, do you want to donate your organs or other body tissues?
How do I create an advance directive?
Each state has its own rules and guidelines. These are often easy to find online. You can also ask a member of your health care team to help you get them.
When you create an advance directive, tell your family and health care team. Also, tell them where you keep it and if you make changes.
How can an advance directive help me?
Creating an advance directive can help you:
• Think ahead of time about what would matter most to you and the care you would want.
• Have peace of mind because you wrote down wishes that can guide your family and doctors in making decisions about your care.
When do doctors use my advance directive?
Your doctor and health care team will only use your advance directive if 2 doctors agree you are too sick to make decisions.
What to do with your advance directive
You should:
• Keep a copy at home.
• Give a copy to every place you get treatment. This includes your doctor’s office and hospital.
• Share copies (printed or scanned) with the person(s) you name as a health representative and other people you trust.
• Tell your family if you change your advance directive. Also, tell your health care team and health care representative, if you have one. The information below explains what a health care representative is.
Choosing a health care representative
A health care representative is someone who tells others what you want. This only happens if you are too sick to do so. Your doctor must put it in writing that you cannot make decisions. Then, your representative can help. If you have an advance directive, this person follows it.
Another name for a health care representative is a "health care proxy.” You might also hear that this person has “power of attorney” or “medical power of attorney.”
How to choose a representative
The person you choose must be 18 or older. Your state might have other rules, too. Learn what they are to make sure the person you choose qualifies.
Your health care representative should also be:
• Someone you trust
• Someone who knows you well
• Willing to talk with you about your wishes
• Willing to speak up for you in the future, even if it is difficult
• Able to come to your home, hospital, or care facility if needed.
In thinking about who to name as your health care representative, choose someone who respects your wishes, even if he or she has different opinions. For example, your proxy might always choose CPR for herself. But if you do not want CPR, she should be able to tell the health care team and family your wishes.
Your health care representative should be able to handle a disagreement. For example, a family member might disagree with your caregiver. In such cases, your health care proxy should be able to express your wishes to the people who disagree.
Consider choosing a second health care representative, too. This person can help if the first person cannot.
What to do after you choose a representative
Once you choose someone, fill out your state’s health care representative form. Sign it, have it witnessed or notarized, and give your doctor a copy.
Decisions for urgent or emergency care
This section explains the documents that can be used to explain what kind of care you want in emergency situations.
A “do not resuscitate” order
A “do not resuscitate” order is another way to say what kind of care you want. You can create one along with an advance directive. Or you can have one by itself. A “do not resuscitate” order is also called a DNR. Some health care systems use the term “allow natural death,” or AND.
What does a DNR (or AND) mean?
If your heart or breathing stops, the health care team will try to start it again. The medical term for this is “resuscitation.” It is also called “cardiopulmonary resuscitation,” or CPR. The law says that the health care team must do it unless you have a medical order about it. A DNR is this type of medical order. It says what you do and do not want.
Why would I not want CPR?
The main reason is because it does not always work. For example, CPR rarely works for people with advanced cancer. Even if it does, brain damage is possible. CPR may not be wanted if a person’s goal is to live as long as he or she is comfortable, and then to die gently.
CPR usually includes a breathing machine called a ventilator. The machine keeps you breathing if you cannot breathe on your own. Some people do not want CPR because they do not want to permanently stay on a ventilator.
How is a DNR different from an advance directive?
An advance directive is a legal document that says what you want in future situations. A DNR is a medical order that applies as soon as it is written. A DNR order says you do not want CPR if your heart stops beating. Emergency medical services, or EMS, cannot use an advance directive. They have to give CPR. But if you have a DNR, they can follow what it says and not start CPR.
If you are at home, you might want to keep a copy of your DNR order visible. For example, you might put it beside the bed or on the refrigerator. That way, caregivers will see it if they come to your house. In the hospital or care center, your DNR is usually in your medical chart.
How do I get a DNR?
Talk with your doctor. A qualified member of the health care team must complete a DNR for you.
What if I change my mind?
You can change your mind at any time if you have a DNR order and decide you want CPR. Tell your health care team, representative, or another person you want to change it.
Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form
A form called “physician orders for life-sustaining treatment,” or POLST, is a medical order. A POLST form addresses whether to use CPR in an emergency. Therefore, POLST forms can include DNR orders, but can also state that you want and must be given CPR if your heart stops beating.
How is a POLST different from an advance directive?
An advance directive is a legal document. It says what you want in the future. A POLST is a medical order. It says what you want if you need immediate care. Emergency medical services staff, or EMS, cannot use an advance directive. But they can use a POLST.
If you are at home, you might want to keep a copy of your POLST form visible. For example, you might put it beside the bed or on the refrigerator. That way, caregivers will see it if they come to your house. In the hospital or care center, your POLST is usually in your medical chart.
How do I get a POLST?
Talk with your doctor. A qualified member of the health care team must complete the POLST for you. You and they must both sign it.
POLST forms are available in about half the United States. But they often have different names. These include MOST, POST, TPOPP, MOLST, and COLST. Ask your doctor, social worker, or another health care team member about POLST in your state.
What if I change my mind?
You can change your POLST at any time. Tell your health care team, representative, or another person that you want to change it. A POLST is yours, and your choices are your decision.
Record a new greeting
To record a new greeting:
• At the top left, tap Menu Settings
• In the section, tap
• Tap Record a greeting
• Tap record
• Record your greeting and then tap stop
• Choose what you would like to do with the recording:
• To listen to the recording, tap play
• To replace the recording, tap Redo
• To save the recording, tap . Enter a name for the new greeting and then tap
Change your greeting
To use a different greeting that you've already recorded or switch back to the default greeting:
• At the top left, tap Menu Settings
• In the section, tap
• Next to the greeting that you would like to use, tap more Set as active
Record a new greeting
To record a new greeting:
• At the top left, tap Menu Settings
• In the section, tap
• Tap Record a greeting
• Tap Record
• Record your greeting and when you’re done, tap Stop
• Choose what you want to do with the recording:
• To listen to the recording, tap Play
• To replace the recording, tap Redo
• To save the recording, tap . Enter a name for the new greeting and tap
Change your greeting
To use a different greeting that you already recorded or switch back to the default greeting:
• At the top left, tap Menu Settings
• In the section, tap
• Next to the greeting you want to use, tap More Set as active
This answer is from an Australian perspective and applies to spoken use of the word. The other answers address the written form so I won't touch on that.
"Greetings" as a salutation might be used when addressing an individual or individuals in a formal settings, such as addressing a crowd, or a dignitary greeting people of another culture. Because most of us wouldn't find ourselves in situations where such a word is appropriate, it tends to be used ironically instead.
For example, when meeting friends out for dinner, you might say "Greetings" as a light-hearted way of introducing yourself. It's not uncommon to hear this, but I also wouldn't suggest adding this word to your daily vocabulary as it would probably come across as pretentious if you made a habit of greeting people this way.
We send our warmest greetings to you and all the other Boyarka shock workers.
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We send Christian greetings to all of you
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That's the island greeting That we send to you
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WE ARE SENDING YOU OUR GREETINGS THROUGH OUR WEBSITE TODAY BUT WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR VISIT TO THE SKI SCHOOL OF ORTISEI TO WELCOME YOU IN PERSON.
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In your person we honour all the citizens of your country, and through you we send our greetings first of all to His Excellency the President, Dr H.
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'We paid a visit to Konstantin Feodorovich : he sends you his greetings, our sister also.
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So, just as Paul wrote to Titus we say to you: ‘All those with us their greetings
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For this reason, I would like to send you a fraternal greeting before we meet in person.
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As indicated by the phrase " refraining from greetings " due to mourning , the concept of sending the postcard is to say , " We are sorry we can 't a New Year 's greeting due to the mourning period , " as opposed to , " We won 't accept a New Year 's greeting from you , " ( while some people believe it 's rude to send the nengajo to a mourning family , it 's common to send a kanchuomimai [ winter greeting card ] instead ) .
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We take this opportunity to send you an expression of our warm Christian love and greetings
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We extend to you a heartfelt welcome, and through Your Excellency We wish to send Our greetings to Mrs. Kennedy, to your family and to all the citizens of your country, invoking upon them the abundant blessings of God.
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Then came March; that fast life goes, we send you a greeting from this blog to our friend AKA Zizter Karenina by his impending birthday that will happen in a couple of days, hopefully that March is a full third month of 2010 ...
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May you benefit from all this: this is our warm wish for each of you, whom we follow with a fatherly greeting in the responsibilities that will be entrusted to you, when you return to your homelands, in the midst of your dear ones and your fellow countrymen, to whom we send an affectionate thought.
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Mr. Ambassador, expressing fervent wishes for the happy fulfillment of your lofty mission, we are glad to assure you of our benevolence, and as we repeat our special affection for the beloved Chilean People, we sendgreeting, through Your Excellency, while we implore divine assistance and the continual blessings of the Almighty for the whole nation.
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Hi [Name],
This simple and friendly greeting, is the best and safest choice, except for the most formal occasions.
Dear [Name],
Dear Mr./Ms./Dr./Professor [Last name],
Dear Ms. Black:
[First paragraph]
When you're not sure about a person's gender, omit an honorific and use their full name in your salutation. E.g., "Dear Finley Brown."
It's also safer to avoid honorifics that imply marital status like "Mrs." While addressing a woman, use "Ms." instead.
Greetings,
If you don't know a person's name, it's appropriate to address them with "Greetings." But we strongly recommend you to find out the recipient's name and personalize your salutation.
Hi everyone,
Yo!
Hi [Nickname],
If you're writing to Jessica, don't take a responsibility to call her Jess. At the same time, if she signs off with Jess, you should also address her that way.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Dear [Job title],
Compared to "To Whom It May Concern" and "Dear Sir/Madam," this greeting is a bit more specific. Anyway, a "Dear Hiring Manager" won't be happy that you haven't taken an extra step to find out their name.
No greeting
Tip:
Being euphoric right from 1st Jan
However, I want to start the new year with a lot of optimism and euphoria. So here is how I have gone about
Collecting data related to new year wishes
First of all, I searched for all keywords related to new year's wishes. I came up with the list shown here.
It is organized as follows
• The first column is a category column such as Health, Family, Professional, Prosperity, etc.
• The second column has the greeting in a related category
• The third column is the weight which corresponds to the importance of each of the greetings. Now this is purely subjective, but this is the general trend I have observed
Now here my greetings using analytics and some stunning data visualization.
Greetings using a Radial Tree diagram
Let us start with a Radial Tree diagram. The main advantage of this type of visualization is that it is radial or circular in shape. This allows compressing a lot of information in the visualization. As you can see that our data has about 50 texts. A radial tree will nicely show all text in a circular or radial way.
So here are my greetings to you using the radial tree visualization. All greetings are nicely arranged. And looks much better than a standard greeting.
This looked great, but I want to take it to the next level. So here is my greeting with a dark theme. And it looks much more elegant !!!
That was cool. But I realize that I did not use the data in the weight column. So let me do that with a Sunburst diagram.
Greetings using Sunburst Diagram
The sunburst visualization is very useful when you want to take advantage of a circular layout to show a large amount of text, as well as represent the weight or importance of the text
So here is my greeting using the sunburst visualization. As you can see that all greetings are nicely arranged as well as the thickness of each section (also called burst) corresponds to the weight column. So the thickness or importance of health is maximum and the thickness of Change is minimum. Of course, as I said earlier, this depends upon every person, but this is the general trend.
As I liked the dark theme, here is the sunburst also in the dark theme.
Excellent till now. I feel I am really wishing you wholeheartedly. But then I realize what if you are not a fan of vertical layouts. So here is my attempt to wish you in a horizontal visualization using a Sankey diagram
Greetings using Sankey Diagram
Generally, a Sankey diagram is used to represent a flow. However, you can use it innovatively if you see any flow in your data. And in the data of greetings, you can think of a flow between Category and Greetings
So here is my greeting using a Sankey chart. As you will see that you do not have to circulate your head to read it
So, my friends, that was my greeting in form of an article. Visualization has helped to pack a greeting message with almost 50 words into nice-looking images. Without these visualizations, it would have been impossible to convey so much of greetings in a nice and concise way.
I think we have started the new year with a lot of optimism and euphoria
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