prepare your advance directives to be sure your loved ones make health choices according to your wishes. Select your state below to find free advance directive forms for where you live. You’ll find ...

The Code of Virginia also contains the "suggested" text that can be used for an Advance Medical Directive in Virginia. Advance Directive forms can be completed without the assistance of a lawyer, but ...

This document overrides your Healthcare Power of Attorney in specific situations. If you want more information, copies of the advance directive forms or assistance completing an advance directive, ...

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To assess the consequences of advance medical directives -- which explicitly specify a patient's preferences for one or more specific types of medical treatment in the event of a loss of competence we ...

Most states and health-care providers offer forms. The California Advance Health Care Directive and the Stanford Health Care ...

Note: Texas law now allows an option for a person's signature to be acknowledged by a notary instead of witness signatures and for digital or electronic signatures on the Directive ... law in Health ...

Northeast Georgia Health System has spent this month advocating for the importance of an advance directive for health care, which is a legal document that has allowed people to make their own ...

To illustrate this ethical dilemma, McMahan conceives a hypothetical case in which an intellectually proud creative woman signs an advance directive stipulating her ... the virtues of care by ...