What you can cover in your health care directive? - Advance Medical Directive
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To better understand the issues relating to your legal situation or problem, our legal information and other law related facts may be of interest to you
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Your Health Care Directive allows you to take care of many things while you are in good health and clear state of mind. Keep in mind that your agent will act like you would act in similar circumstances. You may authorize, or decline to consent to organ donation, or to provide for burial-cremation ceremony. These tough decisions may be particularly important for your family members, especially if you were married more then once and have children form previous Marriages.
You current spouse may want to do one thing, and you children from previous Marriage want to take care of your body in a different way. By issuing a Living Will you cut all possible disputes among you family members.
You agent, or "attorney in fact", will make arrangements for care at a hospital, hospice, nursing home or similar care facility; hire or discharge health-care personnel necessary for your physical, mental and emotional well-being; and access information about your personal affairs and your physical or mental health, such as medical records.
You may specify what kind of care you do and do not want to receive.
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