Health Care Directives

Appoints another person to make healthcare decisions on your behalf when you are unable and declares your wishes regarding heroic measures and end-of-life decisions. This document has tremendous impact on all concerned and too often is overlooked when planning could eliminate need for last-minute anxiety in the face of powerless helplessness of both the person who failed to plan (and no longer is able to speak or act) and those to whom he or she is a loved one.

For example, Romney Law Offices may help you declare what measure you do want and what measure you don't want. There are many scenarios such as vegetative state (brain death), coma, cardiac arrest, congestive heart failure or the advanced stages of cancer. A Health Care Directive is not a "yes or no" proposition. You may want some heroic measures such as resuscitation and blood transfusions but not others such as intubation or intravenous sustenance. You might want to be kept alive indefinitely or "let go" if two or more doctors agree you will not recover consciousness or will become bedridden and entirely dependent on extreme medical care. In addition, you may decide that at the end of your life you would prefer to die at home rather than at a hospital. These matters all require your serious thought and direction.