Living will is a legal, written document, sometimes stated as an
advance health directive or a will to live. You may or may not appoint
an individual as the sole decision maker for all your health treatments
and decisions. The term living will lays stress on the fact that a
person has the right to live as long as possible and as much as
possible.
There have been several instances where the individuals get a legalized
patient decree which states that all kinds of prolonged treatments
should be stopped if that particular individual attains state of
permanent loss of judgment. No doubt, it is your life and you are the
best person to judge and lay down norms for your life prolonging
measures and the intensity of them. Not much can be said about the
power a living will has in dictating one°¶s future, but as they say, it
is better to make prior arrangements. We, as human beings, have no clue
as to what our future holds for us. Why not create a safe situation for
our own sake?