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A person can also revoke their Advance Directive orally, by telling their healthcare provider that they no longer want either the entire document or any parts of it enforced.

An advance directive isn't the same as a DNR DNRs, like POLST forms, require a physician's sign-off and are medical orders, instructing emergency personnel to withhold resuscitation efforts. If you don't want to receive resuscitation, including that information in an advance care directive is not enough.

If the patient loses the ability to make MOLST decisions and the patient has requested full treatment for certain life-sustaining treatment, the health care agent or surrogate can make a decision to withhold and/or withdraw other life-sustaining treatment on the MOLST for which the patient requested full treatment, as

Euthanasia is sometimes called aid-in-dying, mercy killing, death with dignity, etc. An advance directive is a document by which a person makes provisions for health care decisions in the event that, in the future, he/she becomes unable to make those decisions.

If your doctor has already written a DNR order at your request, your family may not override it. You may have named someone to speak for you, such as a health care agent. If so, this person or a legal guardian can agree to a DNR order for you.

A prehospital DNR order is generally a simple, one-page document; you don't need a lawyer to prepare it. You do, however, need to talk to your physician, who will sign your DNR. In some states, adult witnesses or a notary public must also watch you sign the order.

False. Naming a health care agent proxy does not take away any of your authority. You always have the right, while you are still competent, to override the decision of your proxy or revoke the directive.