Casey Kasem’s end-of-life drama: a lesson for the rest of us

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Casey Kasem’s end-of-life drama: a lesson for the rest of us

By Randi Belisomo NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The dysfunction and drama of the final months of Casey Kasem, a radio personality who died Sunday from complications of dementia, captured the interest of generations who listened over the years as he counted down the nation’s top pop. But what Kasem did for four decades on the radio, says end-of-life planning expert Nancy Berlinger, is what he failed to do with his own family before dementia rendered him unable: communicate. Kasem’s advance directive, stating he did “not desire any form of life-sustaining procedures, including nutrition and hydration,” assigned his daughter as surrogate healthcare decision-maker.

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