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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. 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 ...

4. Advance healthcare directive - Wikipedia

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   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. it has a ...

5. 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 ...

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

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   Although Puchalski agrees that living wills have a place, she says they need to be much broader. She explains that "Five Wishes" is a living will form developed by Aging With Dignity that helps ...

7. Will and testament - Wikipedia

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   t. e. A will and testament is a legal document that expresses a person's (testator) wishes as to how their property (estate) is to be distributed after their death and as to which person (executor) is to manage the property until its final distribution. For the distribution (devolution) of property not determined by a will, see inheritance and ...