Living Wills

[SoonerTexan]

DH and I are working on having a will prepared. My company offers a service which pays for a will, medical power of attorney, a living will/medical directive to be prepared for free.

So here's a question I have--should I bother with a medical directive at all? The reason being, if anything were to happen to me, my husband knows what my wishes are (and what decision would line up with my values should a really odd/difficult situation come up). Additionally, given he is about to be a doctor, I trust him to make the right call medically.

The checklist I was given for the living will was so vague--I worry that creating one would just tie his hands in the event something happened and that isn't what I would want.

Can I just have the medical power of attorney created and that's it?

[Meenah]

I would do a living will. If you and your husband are in an accident together he may not be able to speak for you, or you for him. When we did ours we named each other first, and we also named a second person as a backup (my daughter for me and his son for him.