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NRLNews Special Supplement What is the "Will to Live" and Why You Need to Sign One.
The Will to Live is a legal document that you can sign which:
1) names someone to make health care decisions for you (your "health care agent") if you develop a condition that makes it impossible for you to speak for yourself (become "incompetent"), and
2) makes clear (in the form of written instructions to your health care agent) what medical treatment you would want if you can no longer speak for yourself.
Why should I sign a Will to Live?
To lessen the real and growing danger that you may be starved or denied necessary medical treatment when you cannot speak for yourself.
It used to be that most doctors, believing in the ...
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