Components of a Living Will

There are a number of products you can use in your estate planning to assure that your wishes are followed. From the more traditional Arizona will to an Arizona living trust to an Arizona living will, your choices are seemingly endless. However, should you choose an Arizona living will, there are some components you will definitely want to include:

* A decision-maker: This is not the person that will serve as a beneficiary on your Arizona will or for your Arizona living trust; rather, this is the person that you trust completely to make medical decisions on your behalf. It is the person that will follow your wishes to the letter and will do what you would have done in a medical emergency.

* Decisions about life-saving techniques: One of the benefits of using an Arizona living will is that you can make decisions about extraordinary life-saving techniques ahead of time. Things like whether or not you would want life support measures to be taken to sustain life are important decisions that you can include in your Arizona living will. You can include caveats for these decisions and make them long before you sustain a medical emergency.

* Things you do want done: If you are willing to undergo certain medical procedures or you know there are things that you are willing to sustain to prolong life, you can include this information in your Arizona living will as well. The more specific you are in this document, the more likely it is that your loved ones will honor your wishes should you become incapacitated and unable to do so.

In fact, being as specific as possible is an important part of an Arizona living will. The very point of this document is to provide your loved ones with guidance regarding your wishes medically-speaking. Therefore, if you are vague or you leave decisions to someone else to make, this defeats the very purpose of the document. Think ahead to what you would or would not want done on your behalf should you encounter medical problems that render you unable to make your own medically-related decisions.

Moreover, be specific in your wishes, so that while dealing with their grief, your loved ones don’t have to guess at decisions that you might have wanted made on your behalf. This is key when planning your Arizona living will and is an important part of the estate planning process.

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