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If you suffer irreversible damage to any of your major organs, odds are you are going to wind up on a life support system. Encompassing artificial pacemakers, kidney dialysis machines, respirators and others, today's life support systems can keep the human body alive for years, even if an individual is brain dead or in constant pain. While it's obvious to most people to establish a Last Will and Testament which governs what happens to property once they go to meet their maker, a living will is an equally important legal document. A West Virginia living will lays out, in writing, your exact wishes for life support – specifically whether or not you would like to be kept on it when it is made clear by medical professionals that death is imminent and unavoidable without the assistance of life support or a coma or vegetative state has been declared irreversible.
Included in the LegalZoom living will is the ability to choose a health care proxy. Selecting a proxy grants another person health care power of attorney, meaning he or she can act in your stead in making health care decisions if you are not capable of doing so yourself. Additionally, the LegalZoom living will includes provisions for selecting an alternate health care agent, or proxy, if your first choice is not available when you require him or her.
Take control of these difficult life and death decisions so your family won't have to do it for you if the time were ever to come. You have the ability to indicate any personal wishes or particular instructions and rest assured that if you change your mind, a West Virginia living will is completely revocable at any time. With LegalZoom, you can help yourself take control of future health care decisions quickly and easily. Prepare your customized West Virginia living will with LegalZoom online. Act today.
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