Is This a Good Phone Script for the Free Living Will Idea?

[Newby]

Can someone tell me what a "living" will is? Is there a scenario where I'd put a will together after I died?

That's a good point. Most people don't know what you mean by living will.

 

[Mark]

When my brother at 26 years old went off the side of a moutain in his corvette, he was in a coma. The doctors told us there was not a good chance he would never walk up. He had a living will that told us what his wishes were if something like this ever happend to him. To make a long story short, we unplugged him and didn't have to second guess if we did the right thing or not. We did what he wanted us to do.

A living will is just a simple way of letting us know what you want us to do, if you are not awake to tell us.

We all remember Terry Schiavo. If she had a living will, you would have never heard her name on the news.

6 times in my life, I knew of someone that needed a living will. Living wills can save your family a lot of pain and money.

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I started doing free living wills not to sell insurance, but because I was mad at the world that everyone didn't have one of these or didn't care enough about their family members to take the 5 mins to fill out one.

I recommend that each one of you fill one out today.
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50 percent of your job is getting your feet int he door. This will help you. Next you need to help your clients and offer them your services. Next this will get them talking about death/dying and their families.

No one ever wants to think about what will happen to their family members if something bad ever happend to them, but it is our job to do it.

My sister Mandy called me the other day crying, asking me if we did the right thing to unplug Chuck. After she watched something on tv where some guy woke up after 30 years in a coma. I was able to tell her that we did what he wanted us to do, and that is never the wrong thing. I'm so glad that he had a living will. His doctor had him fill out one when he went in for something stupid one day.

The worse 9 days of my life were when my grandfather was dying and my family was torn apart on what to do next.

Don't forget that you are helping the clients and these things might change their lifes one day and protect their families. Insurance is one of the tools that they should use to also protect their family members in the event somthing bad happens to them.

One of my clients had to use the living will that I helped him fill out already. When you are filling one of these out, act like you are doing it on your own mother and don't take it lightly.

Okay, I will shut up now.

 

[Guest]

I agree with Mark. This is the very reason I am entering the biz. For what it's worth - here's my story.

My mother passed away 2 years ago this month and my father 2 years ago this October. I saw first hand what a living will can do and what not having one can do.

My mother had always always always made it very clear what she wanted. She died unexpectedly after surgery and we knew what her wishes were. When the doctors told us we needed to make a decision it was an obvious choice.

My father had a living will, but - well my father was a character and it wasn't very clear (it was actually pretty humerous the way he had some of the things written) and there ended up to be some discourse between siblings on what to do. Remember this was six months after our mom had died so that was all still very fresh too. Not a good year for our family.

One thing I will point out is this. When we needed to make a decision with my mother, we tried to "get out of it" by telling the doctors she had a living will. The doctors taught me something very important. Living Wills can be very - I guess the words I'll use are "broad" and "interpretive". They don't/can't cover every situation (I'm sure there's a better word out there, but I just got a little overwhelmed writing about all of this and my brain has suddenly stopped working - I promise I'll think of the word and get back to you). Anyway - I had asked the doctor for a copy of mom's LW and when I read it that night I understood why the family has to be the ones to make the call and the doctor's can't.

In mom's case - and she had completed her's very well - the situations kind of sort of but not really all fit.

The point of all of this being (oh c'mon - you knew there had to be one eventually) when helping people with Living Wills please please please stress to them to talk to their families about it so everyone knows what the wishes/situations are. My mother was smart enough to drill it into us on what she wanted. My father wasn't - THAT was the hardest of all.

 

[briko3]

The thing is that I'm afraid that anything mentioning insurance will be a turnoff. That might sound like it's manipulative, but in all reality, I'm a financial advisor and would be more than happy to help them with ANY planning...insurance or not. Would you still go with what Bob said, just with financial advisor in it instead?

Thanks for all the help.

 

[Mark]

You will learn a lot by trial and error on this idea.

You will quickly learn what is best for you. If nothing else you are helping people and providing a great service while you learn how to help them protect their love ones with life insurance.

It is my job to make sure if you don't come home, that everything will be okay for your family. I use living wills and life insurance as the tools to do this. I personal believe that you need both. I have both, because my family is important to me.