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ARE THERE FORMS FOR ADVANCE DIRECTIVES IN SOUTH CAROLINA? Yes. The South Carolina legislature has approved forms for a Living Will, Health Care Power of Attorney and ?Five Wishes?. The Living Will form that the legislature approved is called a Declaration of a Desire for a Natural Death.

For assistance with advance directives, you may: Talk to your doctor. Talk with an attorney. Contact 1-888-5wishes (594-7437) to receive the Five Wishes Form, which is a document that meets the legal requirements for an advance directive.

You must be at least 18 years old, and you must be competent. You must sign the living will in front of a notary public and two witnesses (one can be the notary public). If you are a patient in a hospital or a resident in a nursing home and wish to sign a living will, someone from the S.C.

South Carolina Advance Directive Forms. An advance directive is a legally binding document that gives instructions for your healthcare in the event that you are no longer able to make or communicate those decisions yourself.

An advance health care directive lets your physician, family, and friends know your health care preferences, including the types of special treatment you want or don't want at the end of life, your desire for diagnostic testing, surgical procedures, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and organ donation.

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.)