{"id":7989,"date":"2019-05-21T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:19:55","slug":"family-fighting-to-make-end-of-life-decision-for-john-singelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinelaw.net\/blog\/family-fighting-to-make-end-of-life-decision-for-john-singelton\/","title":{"rendered":"FAMILY FIGHTING TO MAKE END OF LIFE DECISION FOR JOHN SINGELTON"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lane V. Erickson<\/a>, Idaho Estate Planning Attorney<\/p>\n

As an attorney who has practiced Idaho estate planning and probate law for the last 20 years I am always interested in stories about families and individuals when it comes to their estate planning. Often these new stories include celebrities who have either done something really well or have made some terrible mistake in their estate planning that was only discovered after they passed away and that resulted in serious problems for those who are left behind. However, every once in a while a different kind of story is reported on. Recently I read the news about the well-known movie director John Singleton. At a young age he wrote the screenplay for and then later directed the movie Boyz n the Hood for which he became both the first African American and the youngest person to have ever been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, at the age of 51, Mr Singleton suffered a stroke which ended up requiring him to be placed on life support. The main reason the story caught my attention was because it contained an announcement by his family that they had made the decision to take him off life support and that they didn\u2019t expect that he would live afterwards. In fact, Mr Singleton did pass away shortly after life support was removed.<\/p>\n

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