Chapter 5 - MY MOTHER’S ADVANCE DIRECTIVE CHANGED EVERYTHINGMom had prepared for incapacity.
Of course she had.
Three years earlier, after watching a friend’s family fight over medical decisions, she signed updated documents.
Healthcare proxy.
Financial power of attorney.
Corporate voting directive.
And a specific clause:
No finding of incapacity shall be based solely on medication-induced sedation unless administered under documented medical order.
I almost laughed when the attorney read it.
Mom knew people too well.
She had seen executives weaponize incapacity before.
Not against herself.
Against an older cofounder.
She hated it.
So she built protections.
The clause meant any attempt to use unexplained sedation as evidence of incapacity would trigger independent physician review.
Professional fiduciary review.
Automatic suspension of family voting proxies.
Serena and Marcus did not know that.
They were trying to manipulate a system designed specifically to detect manipulation.
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That did not make their conduct less dangerous.
It made them careless.
