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Living wills (advance directives) and values histories help medical
staff and others to make decisions about your care and treatment should
you become seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. In some circumstances,
living wills may become legally binding on health care staff. The Living
Will and Values History Project was set up in response to an alarming growth
and proliferation of living will documents that bore little correlation
to academic and empirical data on their usefulness or effectiveness. It
works on a non-profit basis and attempts to collate, analyse and apply
research in this area, acting as an adviser and resource base, as well
as publishing its own document.
Effective documents are not suited to reproduction via the Internet as
layout and paper quality are easily lost, but our document may be downloaded
free using (free) Adobe Acrobat software. A recommended Values
History document may also be downloaded if required. A full pack, containing
the various full documents and accessories, may be ordered by snailmail
at a nominal charge to cover costs.
This form may be printed or downloaded for study and personal use,
or an original obtained in the VESS living will pack.
Technical note:This example is a "dialogue-based"
type of values history. Other styles of values histories include "scenario-based"
and "story-based" documents. For further information, refer to
documents in the academic journals link,
searching for "values history" with your browser's find
facility. For an analytic overview, see the author's academic analysis,
below.)
This page will provide a basic idea of a "living will", fulfilling
the basic requirements suggested by the British Medical Association. It
does not include many of the advantages developed by the Project (whose
mailorder form, available in the VESS living will pack, differs considerably
from this document).
U.S. organisation that keeps track of legal aspects of living wills
in the States. Individual living will documents can be downloaded appropriate
to the statutes of any particlar State. They are in Acrobat format, which
provide quality formatting although there is some download time. (There
are instructions for obtaining the Acrobat plug-in for users that don't
already have it.) There is also an excellent legislative updates page.
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