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Advance Medical Directive / Health Care Directive (also known as a "Living Will")

This document allows you to make decisions regarding the continuation of life support, artificial nutrition, and artificial hydration if you have been diagnosed with an incurable terminal condition, or if you are in a persistent vegetative state / permanent unconscious condition. If you are married, each spouse should fill out this form separately.

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  • Terminal Condition

    A "Terminal Condition" is an incurable or irreversible condition for which the administration of life-sustaining procedures will serve only to postpone the moment of your death.
    "Life Sustaining Procedures" include any medical procedure or intervention that, if administered to a qualified patient, would serve only to prolong the dying process. It does not include any medical procedure or intervention for nutrition or hydration of the qualified patient or considered necessary by the attending physician or advanced practice nurse to provide comfort or alleviate pain.
  • Persistent Vegetative State (CO) / Permanent Unconscious Condition (WA)

    “Persistent Vegetative State” (Colorado) is not specifically defined, but rather is decided by reference to the criteria and definitions employed by the prevailing medical community standards of practice. It generally includes a medical state in which, within a reasonable degree of medical probability, the patient can no longer think, feel anything, knowingly move, or be aware of being alive. The physicians must agree this condition will last indefinitely without hope for improvement and they must have monitored the patient long enough to make that decision. "Permanent Unconscious Condition" (Washington ) is an incurable and irreversible condition in which you are medically assessed within reasonable medical judgment as having no reasonable probability of recovery from an irreversible coma or a persistent vegetative state.
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  • Resolution with Medical Power of Attorney

    Choose "no" if you want your agent to be able to override your wishes in your living will.
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  • HIPAA Release and Communications

    You have the ability to notify any persons of your choosing of your diagnosis, and/or have those persons speak with your health care providers about your condition.
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About Marisa

Marisa Ala

Marisa is taking her 20 years of experience in litigation and helping families secure their financial future through informed estate planning.