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Originally Posted by Tom Earp
I have it in my will that is binding that I will not be kept alive if there is no hope.
This releives the medical people of any recourse.
Why burden the family if any remaining with medical costs that they cannot afford or want?
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You might have signed a lot of things in your lawyer's office when you did your estate plan. I'm pretty sure it couldn't be in your Will. As Mysticat said, Wills typically aren't effective until after death and after being admitted to the probate court.
What you probably signed was an Advance Directive for Health Care -- sometimes called a "Living Will."
These things typically describe what measures can be taken to keep you alive and/or vest the responsibility of determining what to do in another person. It would probably look something like this (although, this is an Oklahoma form):
http://www.okbar.org/public/brochure...ective2006.pdf
*The above is not legal advice.