Everyone Should Have a Living Will
"A living will, known in most states as a Directive to Physicians or Healthcare Directive, sets out your wishes about what extended
medical treatment should be withheld or provided if you become unable to communicate those wishes. The directive creates a contract with
the attending doctor. Once the doctor receives a properly signed and witnessed directive, he or she is under a duty either to honor ...
There is an old saying, "nothing is sure in life except death and taxes". Whether you like it or not, someday you will die. How you die
and how it effects the people you leave behind can be affected by whether or not you have a living will ..."
Everyone Should Have a Living Will
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North Carolina Living Will General Statutes - Part I
"You have a basic right to control the decisions about your medical care,
including the decision to have extraordinary means or artificial nutrition or
hydration withheld or withdrawn if your condition is terminal and incurable or
if you are in a persistent vegetative state.
If you are competent and able to communicate, you may tell your doctor that you
do not want extraordinary means or artificial nutrition or hydration used to keep
you alive if there is no reasonable hope of recovery."
North Carolina Living Will General Statutes - Part I
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North Carolina Living Will General Statutes - Part II
"You may revoke your living will by communicating this desire to your doctor.
You may use any means available to communicate your intent to revoke. Your mental or
physical condition is not considered, so you do not need ...
Keep the original in a place where you or your family members may find it easily.
Some lawyers suggest that you sign several copies and have each one witnessed and
certified. Then, you may give an original to each of the appropriate people.
However, if you change ..."
North Carolina Living Will General Statutes - Part II
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