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Healthcare Directives & Living Wills

Seattle Estate Planning Attorneys
Helping Craft Healthcare Directives

Healthcare directives or living wills give people the power to make end-of-life decisions in the event they become incapacitated. At Satterberg, Healy & Eeckhoudt, in Seattle, Washington, we are committed to helping our clients remain in control of the medical treatment they receive at the end of their lives.

Healthcare Directives, Living Wills, and POLST

Our attorneys can explain and advise clients on the implications of their decisions and treatments they want withheld. We help clients draft healthcare directives and physician orders for life-sustaining treatments (POLST) that stipulate whether they want:

  • life-sustaining treatment to prolong their life
  • nutrition artificially provided
  • to be kept hydrated
  • resuscitation
  • antibiotics

Healthcare directive and POLST are legal documents that can be provided to emergency medical technicians (EMT), emergency room doctors, and other medical personal to direct their care in situations where medical treatment would only draw out the dying process.

Activating a Living Will

Two witnesses that are not relatives and are not named as heirs in the will must sign a healthcare directive in order for it to be enforceable. It is also important that this document is accessible when it is needed. Our attorneys have helped innumerable clients draft healthcare directives. We understand that each client's medical situation is different. We have helped elderly clients, terminally ill clients, as well as young clients draft documents that protect their right to make their own healthcare decisions.

For a free initial consultation with a Seattle attorney experienced at drafting living wills, call Satterberg, Healy & Eeckhoudt at (206) 763-1510 or contact us online.

At Satterberg, Healy & Eeckhoudt in Seattle, Washington, we represent clients in the Puget Sound and Sea-Tac regions and throughout the state of Washington, including King County, Kitsap County, Snohomish County, Pierce County, Clark County, Spokane County, Thurston County, Lewis County, Cowlitz County, Skamania County, and the cities of Seattle, Tacoma, Burien, Normandy Park, Des Moines, Federal Way, West Seattle, Bellevue, Kirkland, Redmond, Tacoma, Renton, Mount Vernon, Oak Harbor, Auburn, Lakewood, Olympia, Everett, Bellingham, Bremerton, Longview, Vancouver, Spokane, Yakima, Richland, Kennewick, Pasco, Pullman, Walla Walla, Wenatchee, and Bellingham.

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