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Your living will must be in writing, dated, and signed by you, or signed by someone else for you in your presence and at your direction. Two or more witnesses are required, and they must be at least 18 years of age.

An Advance Medical Treatment Directive (Common Law) can be any paper in which a person records his/her wishes regarding future medical treatment. The form is not specifically authorized by Kansas Law. It may be a checklist, a narrative statement, or a letter to the physician or person's healthcare agent.

The most common types of advance directives are the living will and the durable power of attorney for health care (sometimes known as the medical power of attorney). There are many advance directive formats.

What are advance directives? Advance directives are legal documents that provide instructions for medical care and only go into effect if you cannot communicate your own wishes. The two most common advance directives for health care are the living will and the durable power of attorney for health care.

A directive is a legal document through which a capable person gives another individual the authority in advance to make decisions on his or her behalf while alive. Typically, it allows the authorized individual to make healthcare decisions when the patient becomes incapable.

A Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order is another kind of advance directive. A DNR is a request not to have cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if your heart stops or if you stop breathing. (Unless given other instructions, hospital staff will try to help all patients whose heart has stopped or who have stopped breathing.)