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Pennsylvania Directive to Physicians (Living Will)
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A Pennsylvania Directive to Physicians — sometimes called a living will — is your written instruction to Pennsylvania doctors about end-of-life care: ventilator, feeding tube, CPR, and the line between treatment that prolongs life and treatment that only prolongs dying.
About the Pennsylvania Living Will
The directive removes the worst kind of guesswork from your family. Instead of your spouse and your adult children arguing in a Pennsylvania hospital hallway about what you would have wanted, the answer is on file in your own words and signed by you when you were healthy.
Our template walks you through the choices the Pennsylvania statute is built around — terminal condition, irreversible condition, comfort care — and produces a clean PDF that goes in your medical chart alongside your Medical Power of Attorney.
Included in both the Core and Premium estate plans, and generated together with the Medical POA and HIPAA Authorization so you have the complete healthcare decision-making set in one sitting.
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Our full Pennsylvania estate-planning binder isn't live yet. Reserve your spot above and you'll be notified the moment it launches. In the meantime, three of our documents work in every state today — HIPAA Authorization, Execution Checklist, and Notary Guide — bundled together for $49.
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No. A DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) is a narrow medical order signed by a Pennsylvania physician for an immediate hospital encounter. A Directive to Physicians is a broader, advance written statement from you about what end-of-life care you do and don't want, used by Pennsylvania doctors as guidance across many possible scenarios.
Pennsylvania accepts the Directive when it's signed in front of two qualified witnesses or a notary. Our Execution Checklist walks you through exactly who qualifies as a witness (someone who is not a beneficiary of your estate, not your healthcare provider, etc.) so the document holds up when it matters.
Yes. A Directive to Physicians can be revoked or replaced at any time while you have the capacity to make medical decisions. You can regenerate the document from your MicroDocs dashboard up to five times within the same plan to capture changes.
Pennsylvania statute requires healthcare providers to follow a properly executed Directive to Physicians (or to transfer the patient to a provider who will). Putting it in your chart and giving copies to your medical agent and primary care physician is what makes it actually get followed in the moment.
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