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An Arkansas advance directive allows a person to articulate their preferences for medical treatment and choose someone to make health care decisions on their behalf. The form is used as a guide for a hospital on how to treat someone in the chance they should become permanently incapacitated with no possible cure.

The advance health care directive provides a clear statement of your wishes about prolonging your life or withholding or withdrawing treatment. You can also choose to request relief from pain even if doing so hastens death.

Living Wills Arkansas law says that any person of sound mind and who is 18 years of age or older can make a declaration or statement that will tell a physician and the person's family what he wants done in his medical treatment if he becomes terminally ill or permanently unconscious.

Advance directives generally fall into three categories: living will, power of attorney and health care proxy. LIVING WILL: This is a written document that specifies what types of medical treatment are desired. A living will can be very specific or very general.

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES. A written document stating how you want medical decisions to be made if you lose the ability to make them for yourself. It may include a Living Will and a Durable Power of Attorney for health care.

This legal document authorizes someone chosen by an individual (called an 'agent') to make decisions on their behalf if they are no longer able to speak for themselves. The agent makes decisions on behalf of the patient which is aligned with their known or stated preferences for ongoing medical care.