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You have the right to give instructions about your own health care. You also have the right to name someone else to make health care decisions for you.
As a member of the Personal Legal Plan and Comprehensive Legal Plan, you get a state specific, web based, Free Living Will form. The living will benefit is an additional benefit to the Free Simple Will.
Only 25% of Americans have a living will.
The terms “living will,” “health care directive,” and “advance directive” all refer to the legal document that details a person’s desires regarding their medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express informed consent, especially an advance directive.
It is virtually a guide for doctors, nurses and caregivers in the event you are in a coma, critically injured, terminally ill, in late stages of dementia or near the end of their life.
The terms “living will,” “health care directive,” and “advance directive” all refer to the legal document that details a person’s desires regarding their medical treatment in circumstances in which they are no longer able to express informed consent, especially an advance directive.
It is virtually a guide for doctors, nurses and caregivers in the event you are in a coma, critically injured, terminally ill, in late stages of dementia or near the end of their life.
A person that carries out the wishes made in the living will.
Decisions on whether life-sustaining treatments be withheld or withdrawn.
If artificial feeding and drinking will be administered.
In the event of death, whether all or some of a person’s organs will be donated.
A living will form, or “health care declaration,” allows a person to choose their end-of-life medical preferences if there is no possibility of a cure.
The legal document outlines important medical procedures you would and would not want to be utilized to maintain your life, as well as your preferences for other medically related decisions from pain management to specific organ donation.
A living will is commonly made at the same time a power of attorney is created to appoint an agent to carry out the wishes of a patient.
An advance directive is not simply for older adults. An unexpected end-of-life situation can occur at any time or age, so it is important for all adults to prepare these documents. A living will provide a blueprint for the medical care you want, help avoid unnecessary suffering and relieve any caregivers of tough decision burdens during moments of grief.
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