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2. What a Living Will Is and How to Make One - Healthline

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   Bottom line. A living will is a written legal document that communicates your wishes for medical care if you’re incapacitated. Living wills are usually used to communicate medical decisions ...

3. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   v. t. e. An advance healthcare directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, medical directive or advance decision, is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. In the U.S ...

4. Five Wishes - Wikipedia

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   This person makes medical decisions on a person's behalf if they are unable to speak for themselves. Wish 2: "The Kind of Medical Treatment I Want or Don't Want" – This section is a living will—a definition of what life support treatment means to a person, and when they would and would not want it. Wish 3: "How Comfortable I Want to Be ...

5. Assisted suicide in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Health departments in Oregon, [97] Washington D.C, [98] and Washington State [99] publicly report yearly on the use of assisted death; as required in their respective statutes. A documentary was produced in 2011 called How to Die in Oregon which follows a woman who uses assisted death and interviews her family and interviews opponents of the law.

6. Physician-Assisted Death: Is It Legal, and Is It Ethical? - WebMD

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   Physician-assisted dying is when a doctor gives a patient a prescription for a lethal dose of medication that they can use to end their life when they're ready. Other terms used by medical, legal ...

7. Putting Affairs in Order Before Death - WebMD

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   Sabatino lists five things that everyone should do before they die: No.1. Give someone durable power of attorney to manage your affairs if you become sick and unable to do so yourself. "Who is ...