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The health care directive must be signed by you and witnessed by two people or acknowledged by a notary public. The health care directive allows people who clearly do not want their lives artificially prolonged under the above conditions to make their wishes known.

Living will: A living will is a legal document that tells doctors how you want to be treated if you cannot make your own decisions about emergency treatment.

Some requirements include: Two people must witness the process of completing the living will. The witnesses present cannot be related to the individual or stand to inherit anything from him or her. The living will becomes legal after all witnesses, and the person who has filled out the document, have signed it.

Witnesses: Two witnesses, who should not be beneficiaries, must subscribe their names to the will or sign an affidavit while in the presence of the testator and at the testator's direction or request. Writing: A Washington will must be in writing. Beneficiaries: A testator can leave property to anyone.

491, every will shall be in writing signed by the testator or by some other person under the testator's direction in the testator's presence or electronic presence, and shall be attested by two or more competent witnesses, by subscribing their names to the will, or by signing an affidavit that complies with RCW 11.20.

Traditionally, there are two main kinds of advance directives: the living will and the Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare. California also allows the use of a POLST (Physician's Orders For Life-Sustaining Treatment).