Living will
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At about that time, a friend told me about a living will, a legal document that — in its own phraseology — enables you to declare in advance that in the event of extreme physical or mental disability from which there’s no reasonable expectation of recovery, you refuse any sort of life-support system. The signer designates who will make the necessary medical treatment decisions if he or she is incapable of doing so. I called my lawyer to ask if living wills were valid in New Jersey, and when she said yes, I instructed her to draw up two living wills, one for my father and another for me.
The Last Days of Herman Roth By Philip Roth
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