The Final Stages of Your Life: Why Having an Advanced Directive is Important
Description
A way to control how a person ends their life is to have an advanced directive. A directive focuses on one’s values, quality of life and beliefs about end of life situations. This legal document allows individuals to specify what health care actions happen when they can no longer speak for themselves.
Document Type
Report
Start Date
26-3-2018 12:00 AM
End Date
26-3-2018 12:00 AM
Genre/Form
articles
Contributing Repository
Klipsun Magazine
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Terminal care--Planning; Advanced directives (Medical care)
Type
Text
Rights
Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.
Language
English
Format
application/pdf
Keywords
Healthcare, Advance care planning, Death
The Final Stages of Your Life: Why Having an Advanced Directive is Important
A way to control how a person ends their life is to have an advanced directive. A directive focuses on one’s values, quality of life and beliefs about end of life situations. This legal document allows individuals to specify what health care actions happen when they can no longer speak for themselves.
Comments
This is an article in Klipsun Magazine, an award-winning student magazine of Western Washington University.