A living will is utilized to state your preferences regarding the use of artificial life-sustaining measures. These measures would include mechanical respiration, artificial nutrition, and artificial hydration. Sometimes a person can be kept alive using these measures, but nature would take its course if the measures were removed. If you were in a terminal condition with no hope of recovery, would you want to be kept alive indefinitely? This is a question that you answer in your living will.
Topics covered in this report include:
- Living Will
- Other Advance Directives for Health Care
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Mark S. Eghrari, Estate Planning Attorney
Mark S. Eghrari is an attorney in private practice in Smithtown, New York. He has been in practice since 1988. Mark S. Eghrari provides extensive estate and tax planning services to individuals and businesses. Mr. Eghrari’s primary focus is helping clients avoid probate, minimize or eliminate Federal and State Estate taxes and protect their assets from the high cost of nursing care, if they become ill.
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