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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.

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.)

It lets you state your wishes about medical care in the event that you can no longer make your own medical decisions. Part III is an optional Organ Donation Form. Part IV contains the signature and witnessing provisions so that your document will be effective.

I, Shirley Louise willfully and voluntarily make this declaration as a directive to be followed if I become unable to participate in decisions regarding my medical care. With respect to any life-sustaining treatment, I direct the following: I direct that no life-sustaining treatment be provided.

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 Health Care Directive, also referred to as a Health Care Power of Attorney, is a written document executed by an adult (the principal) to appoint someone (the agent) to make health care decisions for them when they become unable to make those decisions for themselves.