Georgia Halachic Living Will Jewish Law Form

Instructions and help about Georgia Halachic Living Will Jewish Law

[Music] welcome my name is rabbi yaakov Lions of the National Association of heifer khadisha congratulations to you for deciding to do the responsible thing and to execute advance medical directives also known as the ha logic living will a brief introduction to what we're going to do today the idea is I am NOT a lawyer this is not a matter of legal advice what we're going to do is we're going to go through the forms and fill them out as we go so we're not going to overload you with information here the ideas this is pretty straightforward although as a matter of background there's an idea of patient autonomy and patient autonomy is a legal doctrine that basically says that you me anyone any individual is the patients they are the moral authority of what's right and wrong for them so the patient can refuse to do a certain treatment or medicine the patient can accept and agree to do it it's the patient's decision the issue of course becomes what if the patient is incapable of speaking fo