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Advance Directive |
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Advance Directive A legal document expressing a person's medical wishes in the event of his/her mental or physical incapacity. An advance directive is made while the director is still competent, and comes into effect at incapacity. An advance directive may state whether or not the director wishes to be placed on life support or to receive a particular treatment. It may or may not assign another party ? usually a family member ? to make these decisions as they come up. It is important to note that in this situation, an advance directive is not a power of attorney and neither allows the other party access to the assignor's finances, nor obliges him/her to pay for any treatment. See also: Proxy directive. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The advance directive serves
as the foundation for decisions about care options. There was no living will, no advance directive, no
formal instructions left by Terri Schiavo about what to do for her under
such circum-stances. When the ICU nurse reviews his chart, she discovers when he was
admitted, the nurse documented that he 'did not want to be
resuscitated' and wanted to prepare an advance directive specifying
'no heroics'. |
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