Let Me Decide

Through age, illness or accident, people can lose their capacity to understand the nature and consequences of proposed medical treatment. Health care decisions then fall to families, friends and physicians who may not be aware of the patient's wishes. Developed over many years of research and consultation, this directive gives each individual the opportunity to choose different levels of treatment according to his or her wishes, relieves family and friends of the need to make middle-of-the-night "crisis" decisions and guides health care practitioners in making vital decisions when family members are unavailable.