The Benefits of a Living Will

1. What are the benefits of a living will?

By signing a living will, you indisputably make your choices in dying, your actual dying wishes known.

A. Why is this important?

It is important to make your wishes indisputably known because if you are unable to convey your wishes as to whether you would want to be kept alive through life support and "heroic" measures, your family, your medical provider, and others, even if they do not support your decision, by law, must follow your decision. This takes the debate and guess work out of the very emotionally charged issue of having to guess what your wishes would be if the circumstances set out in your living will became operative. For other questions and answers about living wills, click on benefits of a living will, main page.