WHAT IS A LIVING WILL?
A Living Will (or advanced medical directive) is a document that expresses your wishes for
the type of medical treatment you receive in your final illness. It is not a particularly
accurate name for an advanced medical directive as it is nothing to do with a formal Will.
It is a document that you consider and prepare expressing your exact wishes as to
the medicines, procedures and treatments that you receive and an expression of your wishes
for the types of treatment you expressly do not wish to receive.
As a relatively new area of law, the full effectiveness of such documents has not been
tested through the Courts but such an advanced directive does have the advantage of
relieving not only members of your family from having to make difficult decisions at a
very stressful and emotional time but also relieves the pressure from your medical
practitioner during the course of your final illness. The general nature of such a
living will is to protect your dignity and to prevent you being subjected to what you may
consider to be unnecessary, undignified, drugs treatment or even experimental procedures
which may happen to be available at the time merely to preserve your life when the quality
of your life may have irrevocably disappeared.
Such a directive should obviously be discussed in depth with your nearest and dearest and
members of your family. You may also like to discuss the same with your medical
practitioner. It merely offers to reflect your wishes in a form that will always be
available to make your wishes clear whatever your state of health to both your family and
doctors.
Any questions? Contact Susan Dawe on 823398
Whatley Smith & Co. Solicitors, 1 Augusta Street, Sheringham |
THE
ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION
Sheringham & District Branch |
| Recently some 25 members of the Branch
visited the Wallis Collection of Autogyros at Raymerton Hall, near Dereham. Wing
Commander Ken Wallis, MBE, DEng(hc), EEng, FRAeS, HFSETP, RAF (Ret'd) designed and built
the many Autogyros which are on display in his hanger at Reymerston Hall. Some of them
featured in the James Bond and other films over the years. |
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Still flying at the age of 88, he gave an
aerial demonstration of the Autogyro to the members and took photographs of them from the
air.
He holds 32 world records for the Autogyro set over a period of 30 yeras. Following his
last record in 1998 at the age of 82, he entered the Guiness Book of Records a the oldest
aviator to achieve a World Record.
Sir Colin Turner, Kt, CBE, DFC |
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| Secret
Internet Phone Scam Must Be Stopped, Says Lamb |
Secret software that makes people's computers
dial premium rate numbers instead of their normal Internet Service Provider (ISP) was
condemned by Liberal Democrat MP and Member of the Treasury Select Committee Norman Lamb
today.
The secret internet diallers surreptitiously change the number that computers dial when
people log on to the Internet, and have resulted in telephone bills amounting to hundreds
of pounds per person. The fraudsters are making millions from unsuspecting Internet users.
Computer users have been powerless to tackle the latest crime scam to hit the Internet
according to Mr Lamb.
Today Norman Lamb called on the Department of Trade and Industry, telephone operator BT
and ICSTIS, the Independent Committee for the Supervision of Standards of Telephone
Information Services, to begin urgent talks in order to protect consumers.
Mr Lamb said: "Thousands of Internet users are being affected by this latest Internet
scam. The industry and Government must urgently tackle these 'Premium Rate Diallers' that
worm their way into people's computers without their knowledge or authorisation. It is a
criminal offence and the criminals should be tracked down and prosecuted. "I am today
writing to the Secretary of State at the DTI, Patricia Hewitt to ask her to set up urgent
talks between the DTI, BT and ICSTIS on this issue. In the first instance, BT should
refrain from taking its usual cut of the per-minute charge in cases where premium rate
diallers have been used fraudulently. BT must also take swift action to block fraudulent
premium rate numbers as soon as they are identified.
"ICSTIS, the industry-funded regulatory body for all premium rate charged
telecommunications services, must have enough resources and expertise to handle calls and
complaints from customers. "The DTI, working with other Government departments and
the police must be able to tackle fraudsters who operate within the UK and internationally
in order to protect the public. At the very least foreign operators should lodge a bond in
the UK before being allowed to operate in this country, so that customers in the UK can be
reimbursed if they suffer fraudulent charges." |
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