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Ohio law recognizes an Order of Decision Makers. if you are unable to make health care decisions for yourself. If the state has appointed a guardian, this person is the first decision maker. If not, your legal next of kin have the right to make decisions for you.
Advance directives is the legal term for documents that designate health care decision-makers and choices about life-sustaining treatment. Members of the public can obtain copies of Ohios living will/durable power of attorney for health care forms from Leading Age Ohio.
Advance Directives are legal documents that provide instructions about your health care wishes in case you are unable to speak for yourself due to a medical condition. In Ohio, do not resuscitate orders, living wills, organ donation and durable powers of attorney are advance directives that are authorized by state law.
If not, your legal next of kin have the right to make decisions for you. Ohio recognizes this order of your decision makers: legal guardian (if applicable), spouse, majority of adult children, parents, majority of adult siblings, or other nearest relative. Advance directives are always optional.
The California Natural Death Act lets you sign a living will, called a Declaration. Anyone 18 years or older and of sound mind can sign one. When you sign a Declaration it tells your doctors that you dont want any treatment that would only prolong your dying.

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The specific requirements will be different in each state; however, in Ohio, your Living Will needs to be signed by a notary public or two witnesses. Witnesses to this Living Will cannot be your attending physician or an administrator of the nursing home where you reside, nor your spouse, adoptee, or other relative.
Under Ohio law, a Living Will Declaration is applicable only to individuals in a terminal condition or a permanently unconscious state. If you wish to direct medical treatment in other circumstances, you should prepare a Health Care Power of Attorney.
The two most common advance directives for health care are the living will and the durable power of attorney for health care. Living will: A living will is a legal document that tells doctors how you want to be treated if you cannot make your own decisions about emergency treatment.

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