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2. Five Wishes - Wikipedia

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   The Five Wishes. Wishes 1 and 2 are both legal documents. Once signed, they meet the legal requirements for an advance directive in the states listed below. Wishes 3, 4, and 5 are unique to Five Wishes, in that they address matters of comfort care, spirituality, forgiveness, and final wishes. Wish 1: "The Person I Want to Make Care Decisions ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. How to Plan for End-of-Life Care - WebMD

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   Lawyers: To make your wishes clear, you can use two different legal forms called “advance directives.”. The first is a living will, which tells doctors what kind of care you want to get at the ...

6. Living Wills Helpful, but Unlikely to Solve Most End ... - WebMD

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   Living Will Dilemmas. Feb. 21, 2001 -- Ten years ago, Christina Puchalski's fiance was dying. In the weeks and months prior to his death, her fiance, a physician, had told her that he was too ...

7. Immunization Exemptions: The Rules & Laws Explained - WebMD

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   All 50 states and the District of Columbia allow medical exemptions. Every state except three -- California, Maine, Mississippi, New York, and West Virginia -- allows religious exemptions. And 15 ...