This living will template is a useful document for people contemplating and planning their end of life. Managing a final illness is often complicated  ... more>>and emotion filled so one step a person can take is to have a living will which is a legal document of health care instructions. A living will contains instructions given by individuals that clearly delineate what actions should or should not be taken for their health in the event that they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. This document also may appoint a health care representative to make health care decisions for you when you are unable to make your own health care decisions By law, every person has the personal right to decide whether to begin, continue or stop care or treatment that would keep them alive. Thus any capable person, usually eighteen years of age and above, can make a living will at any time. A living will is effective from the date it is executed until the individual dies or until the living will is revoked. If more than one living will has been executed, the last one to be executed will control how and what healthcare is administered.

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