A living will, or advance directive, is a document that allows you to specify what treatment you want and don’t want if your health condition is considered terminal or you are in some permanent irreversible condition and are, in essential respects, unconscious. You can direct that doctors do certain things or withhold certain treatment if you are in those conditions. That means that the doctors will be given authority to act independently of what your loved ones might wish – that might be good or that might be bad. On the other hand, you can leave the final decision to your loved ones through a Health Care Power of Attorney you have granted to them to make such decisions.
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