Advance Directives offered at End of Life Washington

Provides a downloadable, fillable document online for people wanting to make a living will and/or a health care directive. The document provides instructions about future medical care if a person becomes incapable of stating their wishes. In these documents, both wanted and unwanted treatment may be specified.  

• Combines your Health Care Directive (Living Will) and Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care into one document.
• Applies if you have a terminal or nonterminal medical condition.
• Contains no anti-choice statements.
• Includes an Alzheimer’s and dementia provision.
• Uses specific terminology regarding when you don’t want life-sustaining treatment and what other treatments you don’t want.
• Allows you to place limits on how long you would remain in a coma or persistent vegetative state.
• Offers an option of no life-sustaining treatment under any circumstances (for the very elderly, for instance).
• Includes a statement requesting maximum pain and comfort care, even if it might hasten your dying process.
• Remains in effect after death (for organ donation, disposition of remains).
• Includes a provision stating that if a guardian is appointed for you, that guardian should be the health care agent you named.
• Affirms a health care agent’s right to complete a Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form on behalf of the maker.
• Allows consideration of every legal, ethical option.

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