What is a Health Care Proxy (Living Will)?
A Health Care Proxy (or Living Will) may be, for the client, one of the most personal and difficult documents drafted, as the client must consider his or her own mortality and the process of dying. Drafting the health care proxy asks the client to make decisions about how he or she wants to be treated medically should the client become seriously ill. It also requests taht the client name a person or persons who would fulfill these wishes should the client become unable to do so due to an illness or unconscious state. Health Care Proxies can be as specific as the individual wishes or can be drafted with a more general interpretation regarding quality of life. Both the client and the drafter shoud understand exactly what will go into the document and that the person responsible for carrying out these wishes will do so without hesitation. IF YOU HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT YOUR MEDICAL TREATMENT AND YOUR WISHES CONCERNING THE DYING PROCESS. PLEASE CONTACT ME. I CAN HELP.
