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Well, a living will is different from a regular will. Living will deals with what’s going to happen to you if you’re not able to make a decision on your medical care and it’s clear that you’re terminal. So, the living will would say something like this. If the doctor looks watches over me for some period of time and says he’s not coming back, then I want you to do one of the following three things. So the first step you would ask yourself is how long do you want the doctor to be watching you?

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Typically it’s seven days. So you give it a week. If he’s sure that you’re not coming back, now move to the next step. And that would be one of three choices. One choice is, hey, the next day, stop feeding me. Keep me out of pain, but stop feeding me and let me go. The other choice is the other extreme. No, keep feeding me forever. Just let me go naturally. And then most people pick something in between. So they’ll say, “Fine, it’s been seven days. Give it another three days. Give it another five

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or seven and then stop feeding me.” So maybe there’s two weeks where you might come back. The real reason to do a living will though is to protect your loved ones because then you don’t have like a spouse having to say I give up. There’s no guilt there. So, a living will is an important document and it’s different from a medical POA, power of attorney, which I discuss in a different video. So, if you want to talk about that or anything else, give me a call. will set something up.