Health Care You Want: You have legally enforceable rights to accept or refuse medical treatment, as well as choose who shall make such decisions for you if you cannot. Just when it may be most crucial, mental or physical incapacity may deprive your ability to exercise your right to accept or refuse medical treatment, appoint your own health care agent or donate your organs or tissue.

Health Care Directive Laws Inconsistent: In 1969, Rolf T. Nelson of Estate Crafter’s authored Minnesota’s first Anatomical Gift Act while he served in the legislature. The “Living Will” law was passed in 1989, the Health Care Power of Attorney law in 1993 and the Health Care Directive law in 1998. The four laws were inconsistent and demanded different formats, wording and execution formalities.

4-in-1 Document: After careful research Estate Crafters created our Advanced Health Care Declare to offer our clients the benefits of all four laws and others. This single instrument allows our clients to document their health care and burial preferences, appoint an agent to implement their wishes, and donate their organs or tissue for transplantation.

Avoid Family Guilt: Feelings of Guilt can accompany critical decision-making by your loved ones if they have no written guidance about your preferences. After you have preserved your wishes with you Advanced Health Care Declare, your loved ones will be spared heart wrenching decisions and the guilt that often follows.

Reduce Costs, Preserve Dignity: Aggressive medical treatment is exceedingly costly, often more than $3,000 per day. Should your health insurance coverage be exhausted before governmental programs commence, you and your estate maybe obligated to pay extraordinary sums for futile end-of-life treatment that merely prolongs the dying process. Further, repeated heroic treatments often require sedation, denying you your alertness, peace and dignity, as well as the company of loved ones.

Halt Aggressive Medical Treatment: Whether it’s the Hippocratic oath, personal religious tenets, maintenance of patient numbers or fear of being sued for malpractice, the preferred course for physicians and hospitals can be to persistently deliver aggressive medical treatment. If you haven’t made a legal declaration of your wishes, medical providers may continue aggressive treatment for days, weeks or even years after it is medically certain you will never again enjoy meaningful, cognitive life.

Health Care Agent: You lose your autonomy when medical providers make critical decisions for you. Without a Health Care Agent, medical providers are often unsure whom to consult. Assigning an Agent can relegate those you want to speak for you to merely one of many voices, should you not be able to make your own decisions.

Anatomical Gift or Organ Donation: Advances in medical technology enable over 20,000 human organs and 100,000 human tissues to be transplanted each year in the United States. However, severe shortages of transplantable human body parts still dictate that thousands will needlessly die. A law passed in 2002 assures that family members cannot override your decision to donate your usable organs or tissue. Estate Crafter’s Advanced Health Care Declare will enable you to make such a “Gift of Life.”

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