CanLaw
Legal Forms
This Page Current as of
What is a Living Will
or Advanced Healthcare Directive?
Do You Have A Living Will?
Make Your Own
Certified Living Will In Minutes
LIVING WILL ADVANCED HEALTHCARE DIRECTIVE
How and Why To Make Yours
Order Your living Will for download now
These Living Will forms are designed for Canadian use by non lawyers
You do not need any legal training or experience.
What is a Living Will?
A Living Will is your written formalized, advanced healthcare directive, on what to do should you require extraordinary medical treatment, for chronic illness, terminal disease, or any disability, when you are unable to communicate your wishes.
In Canada, anyone can make a Living Will with CanLaw's living will kit.
Protect Yourself
And Your Loved Ones
It's Very Easy to Make a Living Will
Just fill in the blanks to create your own CanLaw Certified Living Will in minutes with this straight forward CanLaw Living Will kit.
A living will: Also called an advanced healthcare directive, a living will is where you lay out all the specific details of your end of life care.
If you want to die with dignity, you must have a living will.
If you wind up in a coma or unresponsive in the hospital, a living will can help your family decide how to handle your medical treatment.
A living will is a document that explains whether or not you want to be kept on life support if you become terminally ill and will die shortly without life support, or fall into a persistent vegetative state. It also addresses other important questions, detailing your preferences for tube feeding, artificial hydration, and pain medication in certain situations. A living will becomes effective only when you cannot communicate your desires on your own.
About Living Wills
The expression “living will” refers to a simple legal document in which you write down what you want to happen if you become ill and can’t communicate your wishes about treatment.
A Living Will is a simple legal document in which you specify what actions should or should not be taken for your health if you are no longer able to make decisions for yourself because of illness or incapacity.
Many people will write a living will saying that they do not want to be kept alive on artificial life support if they have no hope of recovery.
CanLaw Living Will forms are legal, binding and valid for your living will, estate planning, living trust in all provinces and territories in Canada.
- CanLaw Living Will forms are valid and legal in Ontario
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in PEI
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Quebec
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in British Columbia
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Alberta
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Manitoba
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Nova Scotia
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Newfoundland and Labrador
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Nova Scotia
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Saskatchewan
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Yukon
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in Nunavut
- Living Will forms are valid and legal in North West Territories
Living Will forms are Estate Lawyer Approved Court Approved
When & Why You Should Make Certain You Have a Living Will
A living will outlines your wishes when you’re in a medical situation and can’t communicate.
A living will explains your end-of-life treatment wishes for medical workers
• You may become incapacitated suddenly by an accident, a stroke, or a serious heart attack
• You have a need or desire to state your wishes regarding medical care, the termination of treatment, in the event the time comes when you are not able to make these decisions regarding your medical care.
• You currently have poor physical health, a chronic illness or a terminal disease or disability.
• You are facing pending surgery or hospitalization
• You work in a high risk occupation.
• You do not wish to be kept alive by artificial life support systems.
• You do not want to be resuscitated
• Where there is no reasonable expectation of your recovery from physical or mental illness.
You should also have a Power Of Attorney so your designate can manage your financial affairs while you incapacitated.
Living wills and other advance directives are written, legal instructions regarding your preferences for medical care when and if you are unable to make decisions for yourself.
If you're terminally ill, seriously injured, in a coma, in the late stages of dementia or near the end of life advance directives guide choices for doctors and caregivers .
Advance directives aren't just for older adults. Unexpected end-of-life situations can happen at any age, so it's important for all adults to prepare a living will document. Make sure the right people know that you have one and where it is kept.
By planning ahead now with the CanLaw Living Will forms, you can get the medical care you want, avoid unnecessary suffering and relieve caregivers of decision-making burdens during moments of crisis or grief.
Your living will reduces confusion or disagreement about the choices you would want people to make on your behalf.
How and why to make your Living Will Advance Healthcare Directive
Living Wil forms are your written formalized, advanced healthcare directive, on what to do should you require extraordinary medical treatment, for chronic illness, terminal disease, or any disability, when you are unable to communicate your wishes.
Living Will Kit
CanLaw Certified Legal Forms Created By and For Canadians
Valid in all provinces and territories in Canada
CERTIFIED CANADIAN LEGAL FORMS SINCE 1996
What you should know about the Law Society of Ontario and all law societies in Canada
CanLaw is Canada's #1 provider of Canadian legal Wills, Power of Attorney & Living Wills, Separation Agreements, Pardons, US Waivers, Living Wills, Travel Consent agreements