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Advance healthcare decisions now much easier to make.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 25-JUN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Aging with dignity and having wishes carried out in all healthcare and end-of-life decisions is the way most people want to organize their affairs. Advance directives make that possible.

Since 1998, Mississippians have had a uniform healthcare decisions act that provides the legal mechanism for adults or emancipated minors to provide oral or written instructions as an advance healthcare directive.

Simply put, Ben Windham with Watkins, Ludlam, Winter and Stennis law firm said the state recognizes four legal documents for this purpose.

"They are a living will, power of attorney for healthcare that's used in conjunction with that, individual instructions and an...

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