📋 What is a Living Will, and How Do You Make One? (AARP Article)

[Spring2025]

FROM ARTICLE - SEE ARTICLE FOR MORE!!!

"Her living will takes over now,” the nurse practitioner said the morning after my mother slipped into a coma.

I was 51 weeks into 24-hours-a-day caregiving, which included constant decision-making about hospital, rehab and nursing facility admissions, as well as readjustments of medication and treatment plans — without a break. Practically every day of caregiving held life-or-death choices.

https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/financial-legal/info-2019/what-is-a-living-will.html

[GailL1]

Yes, you better know the laws in the state where you make up such documents or they may NOT accept your wishes under certain conditions - If you don’t like the law in your state, attempt to change them or MOVE to another state where your final wishes will be respected.

Seattle Times 08/25/2017 - Despite advance directive, Oregon dementia patient denied last wish, says...