WHAT IS AN ADVANCED HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE AND DO I NEED ONE?
An Advanced Health Care Directive is a document that gives health care providers instructions to listen and obey a person whom you have chosen to make health care decisions for you if you are unable to do so for yourself. This is a serious document. If you have a person in your life that you trust to follow your wishes, you should have an Advanced Health Care Directive. If there is no one to tell the doctors what you want done, then the fall back procedure would be to keep you alive as long as possible no matter what the quality of life may be.
