Living Will / Power of Attorney for Health Care
Specify Your Health Care Directives

A Living Will gives you some say in the way you will be treated before you die, in a situation where death is otherwise inevitable.  This can be used in two ways --- to put a swift end to intolerable suffering, or to endorse the use of experimental treatment to try and save your life if at all possible.  Most people die in hospitals and often this is after receiving treatment administered in an effort to prolong a person's life.  Medical staff are duty bound to use everything within the powers of modern medicine to keep a patient alive as long as possible, and within those powers there are regulations to be followed.  Medical staff are obliged to preserve a patient's life without necessarily considering the financial or emotional concerns of the patient and loved ones.

A Power of Attorney for Health Care allows you to nominate a Health Care Representative who can make health care decisions for you when you are incapacitated and unable to make decisions for yourself.  It can be used to complement your Living Will.

The most common use of a Living Will is to express your desire for a voluntary passive euthanasia.  Simply put, this means that medical staff should not artificially preserve your life under specific circumstances which are determined by you.  In addition, your Living Will or "healthcare directive" can express your views on the health care that you wish to receive if you were ever in a permanent coma.

We have removed the obstacles to writing a Living Will and Power of Attorney for Health Care.  It is convenient, low cost, and simple.  In the same way that you create a Will on our web site, we provide a service which steps you through a series of questions in a "wizard" format.  It will ask you about your wishes regarding different types of treatment under different conditions, and allow you to set up your Advance Directives --- your Living Will and Power of Attorney for Health Care (allowing you to specify your Health Care Representative).  All questions are written in plain language, so you don't have to be a legal expert to create your own Advance Directives.  You simply answer the questions about your medical care wishes and we automatically and instantly format a document that forms the basis of a legal Living Will and Power of Attorney for Health Care, customized for your local jurisdiction.  The documents can then be printed and signed in front of witnesses to become legally binding documents.  There is also plenty of supplementary information to help answer all of your questions.

Make unlimited updates free of charge.  Don't pay a lawyer every time you need to update your Advance Directives.  We allow your Living Will and Power of Attorney for Health Care to be kept securely online so that you can make unlimited updates for as long as you are a member here.  Not only will you always have legal documents, but they will always be kept up to date.

Not interested in a Will?  Only want a Living Will?  If you are not interested in creating a Will at this time, and only want a Living Will (Power of Attorney for Health Care) document, please visit our parent site, www.PartingWishes.com.