a living will is actually called an

advance directive for medical and

surgical treatment so it’s got two names

one’s colloquial and doesn’t really

describe it well and the other one’s too

long but basically what it does is it

says if two doctors at least have

decided that I’m not gonna make it I’m

in a no hope situation where my health

is not going to recover and the only

reason why I’m still around is because

I’m on life support how many days would

I want to stay on those on that life

support and until they remove it and

allow me to pass away so it’s a very

heavy decision to make obviously so what

the living will does is it allows you to

make that decision for yourself in that

document so you’re not asking your loved

ones to make it for you that’s one of

those decisions that if there is a

difference of opinion between siblings

or something like that it’s a hard uh

recovery for that relationship so you

can get it set up taken care of so no

one else has to worry about it so that’s

why we typically recommend everyone have

a living will

um it just really takes that weight off

of your loved one’s shoulders and allows

you to kind of sometimes I say it allows

you to be the bad guy so none of them

have to be but really it just means your

wishes are going to be adhered to and no

one has to worry about making that

decision