Adults generally have the right to decide if they want medical treatment, unless they are not competent. This right also includes decisions about treatments that extend life, like life-support machines or feeding tubes.

Sometimes, an accident or illness takes away a person’s ability to make health care choices. But the decision still must be made. If you are unable to make them, others will. They will decide based on your wishes, or your best interests if your wishes are unknown.

Advance Directive forms are provided in the following languages: