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MALLEY: That's true. I think this case is sounding a wake-up call and Americans are listening. Our office has been flooded with thousands of phone calls and requests for the Five Wishes document, and it's coming from young people. People are saying I see that Terri was young when this happened, and I'm in the same boat. And if we don't have more conversations like this in our homes, then there's an opportunity for more Terri Schiavo-like cases in future, and we can do something to avoid that.

HARRIS: OK, here's the first wish, something to talk about: Which person you want to make health care decisions for you when you can't make them yourself. Talk us through that a little bit.

MALLEY: This allows you to name someone to make the decisions in case you're not able to speak for yourself. It's called your health care agent. It may be your spouse. It may be a close relative or a friend. You want to pick someone who is going to know and understand your wishes and follow your wishes, someone who you know is going to have some back bone and stand up for you and what you would want in case you're sick and not able to speak for yourself.

HARRIS: And No. 2 here, the kind of medical treatment you want or don't want.

MALLEY: This gives your health care agent some direction in choosing the type of care that you're going to get or not get. There's an important part there, and it's the definition of life- support treatment. That's important because it's not enough just to check a box that says I do or I don't want life support treatment; it is important in a document like five wishes to specify what you mean by life-support treatment, and then answer when you would or would not want that treatment in certain situations. Five Wishes allows you to get specific enough.

HARRIS: OK, the importance of a third wish here, how comfortable do you want to be?

MALLEY: You know, it's interesting no matter what state we're in, whenever I ask the question, what's important to you if you're sick and near the end of life, people say, I want to be at home, I want my family with me, I don't want to be in pain, I want people praying for me. These are the types of things that we get into in wishes three four and five. It's one of the reasons that Five Wishes is called the living will with a heart and soul. In three it talks about personal care preferences, pain management, those types of things.

HARRIS: Yes, and the fourth wish here, how you want people to treat you. Well, humanely. That seems pretty obvious. But I know it's more detailed than that.

MALLEY: Exactly. You know, I've heard lots of stories when families call our office and talk about the benefit of five wishes. They say I've never cared for a sick husband or a sick …