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So nobody hasto guess
Two things in one document. Who speaks to your doctors if you cannot speak for yourself, and what you would want them to say. Written down while it is a calm conversation rather than an urgent one.
About 15 minutesIncludes advance directiveFree updates forever
What it does
One appointment, one set of wishes
This document does two jobs that are usually sold separately. First it appoints a healthcare agent: the one person given authority to make medical decisions on your behalf while you are unable to make them yourself. Second it records the advance directive, your own instructions about the care you would and would not want, so your agent is carrying out your decisions rather than making them up under pressure.
That second part is the one worth taking seriously. An agent with no instructions is being asked, in a corridor, at two in the morning, to guess what you would have chosen and then live with having guessed. Families that disagree in a hospital are almost never disagreeing about who to trust. They are disagreeing about what you would have wanted, which is a question only you can answer and only in advance.
It applies only while you cannot decide for yourself. As long as you can express a decision, yours is the one that counts, and your agent has no authority at all. This is not a document that hands over your care. It is a document that describes your care when you cannot describe it.
What happens without one
- Clinicians turn to next of kin under the default order your state sets, which may not match who knows you best
- That person is asked to decide with no record of what you would have wanted
- Where family members disagree, there is nothing written to resolve it
- An unmarried partner may have no standing to be consulted at all
- Access to your medical records can be restricted for the very person trying to help
- The decision still gets made, but by people guessing rather than following
The people involved would all be doing their best. This document exists so that their best is your answer rather than their guess.
What is included
The appointment, the instructions, and access to the records
Generated from your answers against the healthcare forms and witnessing rules of your state, which differ more on this document than on any other.
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Your healthcare agent, and an alternate
Who speaks for you, and who steps in if that person is unreachable or unable. In a hospital timeframe an unreachable agent and no alternate is the same as no document.
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Advance directive, in your own terms
Your instructions on life sustaining treatment, artificial nutrition and hydration, and comfort focused care. Recorded as your stated wishes rather than a box you ticked, because your agent will be reading this aloud to a clinician.
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Guidance for situations you cannot foresee
A short statement of what matters most to you: independence, time at home, being present with family, avoiding particular interventions. It is the part that helps your agent answer the question nobody wrote down.
04
How much discretion your agent has
Whether your agent must follow your directive strictly or may weigh it against the circumstances in front of them. Both are legitimate choices, and leaving it unsaid is what causes conflict.
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Authority to access your medical records
The release that lets your agent actually see the information they are being asked to decide on. Without it they can be left deciding while being told nothing.
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Organ and tissue donation, and other wishes
Your preference recorded plainly, along with any personal, religious or cultural instructions you want followed in your care.
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Limits you want to set
Anything you specifically do not authorise your agent to decide. Stated expressly rather than assumed, so there is no room for interpretation.
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Signing checklist and a copies list
Witness and notary requirements for your state, plus who needs a copy: your agent, your alternate, your doctor, and your Legacy Vault™. This document is worthless at the moment it is needed if nobody present can produce it.
Who needs this
Every adult over eighteen
The default rules assume a conventional family and a clear next of kin. If your life differs from that in any way, this document is how you correct it.
You have someone you would want in the room
A spouse, a partner, an adult child, a sibling, a close friend. If a specific person comes to mind, naming them is the whole exercise, and it takes fifteen minutes.
You are unmarried, or your family would disagree
A long term partner you never married may have no standing under default rules. Where relatives hold different views about care, a written directive is the only thing that settles it.
You have clear feelings about your own care
Many people hold strong views about life sustaining treatment in one direction or the other. Those views only govern anything if they are written down before they are needed.
You have a diagnosis, or surgery coming up
Any planned procedure is a good reason to have this in place beforehand, and hospitals will usually ask for it. Doing it now is calmer than doing it during admission.
This document covers healthcare only. Money, property and bills are handled by the Financial Power of Attorney, and most people should have both. Both are included in Legacy Complete™.
Part of your bigger plan
The document your family needs to be able to find
Most of an estate plan is read at leisure by a lawyer. This one is needed inside an hour by whoever is standing at a hospital desk, which changes what a good plan does with it.
So the platform tracks the practical part as well as the signature. Is it signed, does your agent have a copy, does your alternate know they are named, does your doctor have it on file, and is it in your Legacy Vault™ where a permissioned family member can reach it. Signing alone closes part of the gap. Being reachable closes the rest.
It also needs revisiting more often than anything else you sign. People’s views change after a family illness, and the person you would name at thirty is not always the person you would name at fifty. Free edits on a plan are what make revisiting it realistic rather than a task you postpone forever.
What signing your directive is worth
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Estate Readiness leans on your LQ™ Score harder than any other pillar. This document is scored partly on whether it can be produced when it is needed, which is why sharing it with your agent moves the number too.
Points shown are illustrative. Your own movement depends on what you already had in place.
Pricing
Two ways to get it
$99
The medical power of attorney and its advance directive, yours to keep. Locked once you finalise it, with no Legacy Lens™, no external sharing and no further edits without a plan.
Buy the documentThe advance directive is part of this document, not an upsell.
Appointing an agent without recording your wishes leaves them guessing, so selling the two separately would be selling half a document. One price, both halves, on every route to it.
Questions
About medical directives, specifically
Fifteen minutes
Fifteen minutes now, so somebody you love never has to guess.
Name your agent, record what you would want, and see what it does to your LQ™ Score.
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