In determining your health care wishes, you should always take your values into account. These considerations should include your thoughts about the importance of self-sufficiency and independence, and where to draw the line when the quality of life is compromised. Also, you need to decide if your advanced directives would prohibit life-sustaining and/or life-saving measures.
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Living wills are legal documents that contain a person’s specific wishes with regard to health care. These legally binding papers take effect in the event of severe illness and incapacity to convey preferences and make decisions about medical treatment and other life-sustaining measures.
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A living will is a legal document that contains advance directives with regard to medical treatment. The form, once properly signed and filled out, becomes legally binding and takes effect in case of hospitalization - particularly if the patient falls into an awful and incapacitated condition.
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An individual who is of sound mind and above 18 years of age is entitled to plan and give directions concerning future medical care in the event of a serious infirmity or vegetative state. He or she may convey certain wishes through living wills.
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The current medical advances have made it possible for health care providers to artificially prolong life. To some people, the notion of hooking their loved ones to a life support system may be not be agreeable especially if there is no definite chance of recovery from the debilitating condition.
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Any competent resident of Missouri who is 18 years or older can draft a living will by affixing his or her signature and the exact date to the declaration. This must be done in the presence of two qualified witnesses. A witness must be at least 18 years of age and should not have nay relation to the creator of the living will. He or she should not be a beneficiary of or monetarily responsible for the health care of the creator.
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The Kentucky Living Will Directive Act of 1994 was ratified to make sure that the residents have the right to decide for their own health care, as well as to refuse or accept medications or medical procedures. This right to choose is applicable to treatments that attempt to prolong a person’s life such as ventilators or feeding tubes.
If you live in the state of Kentucky, a living will can basically enable you to leave behind instructions in four crucial areas. You may choose to designate a health care surrogate (patient advocate), request or refuse life-support measures, request or refuse artificial hydration or feeding, and/or convey your wishes with regard to organ or tissue donation.
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What are Advance Directives and Living Wills?
An advance directive instructs your attending physician about the type of care/treatment you would like to receive if you ever become unable to formulate decisions for yourself. Hospital personnel may talk to you about this stuff.
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Illness, severe injury and death are delicate subjects that are not easy to talk about. The main thing though is that by preparing in advance you can make sure that you receive the kind - or extent - of medical treatment you want.
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Massachusetts living wills posses the same features as that of a standard living will. However, due to the lack of state laws that govern the creation of application of this legal document, certain features may be absent.
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