vicarz | (no subject)

Always consult a real attorney over important shit. That said, here are some on-line free resources I found:

Virginia Advanced Directive sample
http://www.vda.virginia.gov/pdfdocs/AdvMedDir.pdf
(this tells when you use a machine to help you live, when not to, and so on. As previously mentioned - while we all knee-jerk to say "no machines ever," if you're in a crash TONIGHT and being on a machine for 2 days will give you another 20-40 years of normal life after that brief interlude...)

Virginia power of attorney:
http://www.vda.virginia.gov/pdfdocs/Power%20of%20Attorney%20Material.pdf
(Power of attorney is more dangerous and more likely to come up than advanced directives, often potentially involving financial matters, so I would be even more cautious with that than the advanced directive)

Release of medical information:
I just spoke with someone whose mom is in the hospital, and the Florida hospital would not release any information to him, her son, about her condition because of their bizarre laws and interpretations of privacy statutes. So he suggests getting a release of medical information form filled out as well. There isn't one good sample for that, but you can quickly google a bunch and use the general format, or just a quick note I think, to make your own.

I'm probably going to do each of these and get copies to my records and to family members.