Your living will or advanced medical directive instructs your agent how you want medical decisions to be made for you if you are incapacitated and unable to direct your own health care. When you execute your Advance Medical Directive with one of our attorneys, there will be several decisions you can make at that time. The types of decisions you will make include:
• Whether or not your agent has authority to authorize your autopsy;
• Whether or not your agent can donate your organs;
• Who you wish to make decisions about your final disposition;
• The manner of your final disposition (burial, cremation, etc.);
• Whether or not you wish to appoint your agent or someone else ass your guardian in the event you need a legal guardian.
You do not have to make a decision about any of these matters right now. Please feel free to share your choices in this section of the questionnaire. However, you may address your questions directly to one of the attorneys when the time comes to execute your documents.