If you are ill and facing a life and death situation would you like to put your body through life saving treatments that are painful? You may also have to opt out for similar treatments in case of a heart attack, a malignant disease or seriously troubled respiration and so many other medical conditions. Life is meaningful and so precious, it gives you many options to choose from, but what if you are unconscious and not capable of making these “life-saving” decisions on your own? You need help but do you want someone else to do this for you?
In cases if you are incapacitated or unconscious, someone else will take the decision of health care for you. What if you want to spend the left over precious time with your family, untreated, but conscious? What if you want to give life that last shot however expensive it may be? You can record your decisions, whatever they might be, with help of an advance directive attorney who will document this in a legally sound advance health care directive.
Decisions, decisions and decisions! There is so much thought that goes into health care planning for the future. You may have to make serious judgements regarding medical procedures that are acceptable to you later in life. Do you want to sit supine, gazing out of windows because you can’t get out of the recliner chair, unattended? All these complications because a “much necessary” medical procedure was not taken, is all this worth it? This needs analysis and consultation from an advance directive lawyer, so don’t hesitate ask for genuine advice.
Treatment decisions can be documented by an advance directive attorney in an advance health care directive a fter taking account of your needs and personal values. Quality of life is priority and focus to most people. Many do not believe in staying paralysed and in permanent coma forever! Medical treatments like staying on a ventilator for years and years may not be your choice but it might be the choice of your family, in case such a mishappening occurs. You have a right to refuse such treatments and can document your desire with an advance directive lawyer and get your personalised advance health care directive designed according to your personal values, needs and choices.
A personal directive, medical directive, living will, advance decision or advance health care directive is prepared legally specifying health care related actions so that they can be enforced when a person can’t make a decision personally because of incapacitation or serious debilitating illness. You can make the start by analysing the medical treatments available and the ones acceptable to you in case of a medical emergency.
Everyone has medical conditions that need to be looked into and the kind of treatments that you might have to go through in future so make decisions after weighing the pros and cons. Your doctor and attorney can guide you through this tough phase by offering you expert health care related advice. You can change your decisions if you see differently in the future See, analyse and then document your decisions in the advance health care directive!
