Nicolas Walker Yet a new study of more than 7200 people has found only about 14 per cent had prepared an advance directive to dictate their future medical care. NSW and Victoria lagged behind the ...

A living will is an advance directive that ... and override a health care proxy if you regain the ability to make decisions. Download your state’s living will template and fill it out.

Talking about your advance care directive with your loved ones will make life — and death — easier later on. By Dana G. Smith Instead of talking about politics around the Thanksgiving table ...

It involves preparing a will, appointing a power of attorney and filling out an advance care directive — a legally binding document that outlines a person's end-of-life preferences. "It's about ...

The State Government is closing a loophole allowing “euthanasia by stealth” where people attempting suicide sign a legal form preventing clinicians from giving treatment to save their lives.