These directives pertain to treatment preferences and the designation of a surrogate decision-maker in the event that a person should become unable to make medical decisions on their own behalf. Advance directives generally fall into three categories: living will, power of attorney and health care proxy. LIVING WILL: This is a written document that [..]

Documents (such as a Living Will) completed and signed by a person who is legally competent to explain wishes for medical care should he or she become unable to make those decisions at a later time.

Advance directives are instructions pertaining to treatment preferences and health care given by individuals about what actions should be done or not done, in the event of their incapability to make d [..]

Advance Directives are written instructions specifying the medical care you want or don’t want in the future and how you want future medical decisions to be made in the event you are unable to communicate or make the decisions for yourself. The two most common Advance Directives are the health care power of attorney and the living will. In addition [..]

Declarations by Patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decis [..]

Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decis [..]

documents (such as a Living Will) completed and signed by a person who is legally competent to explain his/her wishes for medical care should he/she become unable to make those decisions at a later ti [..]

Advance directives preserve the person's right to accept or reject a course of medical treatment even after that person becomes mentally or physically incapacitated to the point of being unable to communicate those wishes. There ared two basic types of advance directives: (1) a living will, in which the person outlines specific treatment guide [..]

Legally accurate name for the next two documents dealing with passive euthanasia.

Directions given by a competent individual concerning what and/or how and/or by whom decisions should be made in the event that, at some time in the future, the individual becomes incompetent to make health care decisions.  An example is a woman who has signed a document that states that, should she fall into a persistent vegetative state, she does [..]