Healthcare directives, also known as advance directives or advance decisions, are instructions given by individuals to specify what actions should be taken for their health in the event that they are no longer capable to make decisions due to illness or incapacity. A living will is one form of an advance directive that allows a person who is unconscious or incapacitated to express his or her wishes regarding the use of extraordinary measures to extend their life when there is no reasonable expectation that he or she will regain consciousness or recover.

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