A living will, health care power of attorney and a health care proxy are all instruments known, generically, as health care directives. These are legal documents all have the same effect as a durable power of attorney, except that the purpose is to provide for medical decision making rather than financial decision making which is provided by a durable power of attorney. They are recognized in every state other than the District of Columbia.

A MyWIllPros health care directive combines the effects of a living will, in which you specify your wishes in regards to the use or the discontinuance of artificial life support should you fall into a coma or are in a vegetative state, relieving your loved ones of this decision, entirely. The document also, however allows you to appoint an agent who would make important decisions for you in regards to other medical treatments should you be rendered unable to do so, as with a traditional Health Care Proxy/Power of Attorney. With MyWIllPros and your new attorney, all of your wishes regarding health care are prepared in writing, in advance of illness or incapacity, all in one document. more