84 year old great grandma gets a “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” tattoo

Eighty-year-old Mary Wohlford has informed family members of her wishesshould she ever become incapacitated. She also has signed a living willthat hangs on the side of her refrigerator.

But the retired nurse and great-grandmother now believes she has removed all potential for confusion.

She had the words “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” tattooed on her chest.

Really.

“People might think I’m crazy, but that’s OK,” Wohlford said. “Sometimes the nuttiest ideas are the most advanced.”

Medicaland legal experts expressed doubts that Wohlford’s tattoo would provebinding, either in the emergency room or in the courts, but they giveher credit for originality.

“I’ll be darned,” said Bob Cowie, aDecorah lawyer and chairman of the Iowa Bar Association’s probate andtrust law section. He added, “There are easier ways to do it thanthat,” such as signing a living will or authorizing a medical power ofattorney.

Said Wohlford: “I don’t believe in lawyers too much.”

Read the rest of this story in the Des Moines Register.

Ed:  Thanks to Bill Colby for sending me this item…