| HEALTH-RELATED
DOCUMENTS |
| Name
of Document |
Legal
Title of Owner |
When
Document Used |
Function
of Document |
When
Document Becomes Effective |
| Health
Care Proxy
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|
Principal |
During
lifetime of principal |
Appoints
a health care agent to make medical decisions, in accord with
principal's wishes, if principal is unable.
|
Upon
incapacity of principal to make health care choices |
| Living
Will
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Principal |
During
lifetime of principal |
Lists
medical treatments principal does not (or does) want, if unable
to make own medical decisionsat a specified level of physical
decline.* |
upon
incapacity of principal to make healthcare choices and upon
meeting the specified level of decline set forth in the document.
|
*
Typically, "If I am [e.g.] permanently unconcious, I
do not wish life-sustaining treatment." |
