Advance Directives are legal documents that direct medical staff regarding your choices for care in situations where you might be unable to advocate for yourself. Below are very useful resources to help you get your ducks in a row.
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This simple form allows you to authorize your choice of cremation, aquamation, burial or natural organic reduction, clearly indicating your wishes for your final resting place.
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A Health Care Directive (also called a Living Will) lets you state what kind of medical treatments you do or do not wish to have if you are terminally ill or permanently unconscious and cannot make decisions for yourself. It also lets you write down your health care values.
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A power of attorney form lets you choose a trusted friend or relative to help you with your finances and/or health care decisions.
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A Mental Health Advance Directive can help if you have a mental illness that sometimes affects your ability to make health care choices.
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Use this self-help form to fill out a VSED Directive. It expresses your end-of-life wishes if dementia or other progressive illnesses cause you to lose the ability to make your own health care decisions.
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A dementia-specific advance directive that addresses the changes in cognition that occur as dementia progresses and the changes in goals of care that patients would want along the continuum of the disease.
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A Washington State document to be discussed with your physician regarding your wishes for resuscitation and treatment.
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An Alternative Advance Directive that provides for plain language conversation about end of life choices.
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This form allows you to authorize your choice of cremation, aquamation, burial or natural organic reduction, clearly indicating your wishes for your final resting place.
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A Designated Agent is similar to a power of attorney but for funeral arrangements. This form is useful for those who may wish to have a non-family member, such as a good friend, oversee their cremation or burial arrangements.
