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A Healthcare Power of Attorney is a legal document that allows you to designate a person (an "Agent") who will have authority to make general health care decisions on your behalf if you are unconscious, mentally incompetent or otherwise unable to make these decisions for yourself. A Living Will, on the other hand, allows you to express your wishes specifically regarding receipt or non-receipt (as the case may be) of "life-sustaining procedures" if you become permanently comatose or terminally ill.

Even if you have executed a Health Care Power of Attorney or Living Will, you still have the right to give medical directions to physicians and other health care providers as long as you are able to do so. These documents only become effective when you do not have the capacity to give, withdraw or withhold informed consent regarding your health care.

Remember, provided you are mentally competent, you can of course revoke your Healthcare Power of Attorney or your Living Will at any time!

If you become unconscious or ill and unable to make decisions regarding your own healthcare, an application may need to be made in order to have you made a ward of court. In such cases, a court will then appoint a guardian who will be given the power and responsibility of making medical decisions on your behalf.

However, there is no guarantee that your guardian will respect any wishes that you may have expressed regarding your medical treatment. This is risky...

By having both a Healthcare Power of Attorney and a Living Will:-

	You can appoint an agent of your choosing to make medical decisions on your behalf should you become incapacitated;
	You can avoid having a court appointed attorney make medical decisions that could adversely affect you!
	You will have the security of knowing that the person who has been appointed as your attorney is someone that you can trust to make these important medical and health care decisions on your behalf; and
	You can limit the rights given to your attorney under a Durable Healthcare Power of Attorney or you can give your attorney full rights to manage all your medical affairs - the choice is yours not the Courts!
	You can express your wishes as to what you would like to happen if an illness or an accident leaves you in a coma or in a vegetative state:- specify whether you would want to have your life prolonged by any means necessary; specify whether you would like to have specific treatments withheld to allow a natural death; or nominate someone else to make these decisions for you!

Our Living Will & Healthcare Power of Attorney Kit contains all the ready-to-use lawyer prepared legal forms and documents necessary to create both a Healthcare Power of Attorney and a Living Will. It also contains all the documents and forms necessary to revoke each such document.

As well as taking you by the hand through the whole process of creating a valid and enforceable Healthcare Power of Attorney and Legal Will, our legal kit also explores the following areas in detail:-

	Advance Directive - Livings Wills and Healthcare Powers of Attorney;
	Types of Power of Attorney;
	Advantages and disadvantages of having a Power of Attorney;
	Dealing with incapacity;
	Duties and responsibilities of Agents;
	Legalities surrounding Powers of Attorney;
	Commencement and cessation of Powers of Attorney;
	Revocation of Powers of Attorney; and
	much more...

Finally, by creating your powers of attorney today, You will ensure that should you become incapacitated your affairs will proper care, in the way you wish. Simply follow the instructions, and you can have your Powers of Attorney prepared in a matter of minutes quickly and easily!.

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