The Living Will is a document that allows you to establish guidelines for dealing with life-sustaining medical procedures in the event of sudden debilitation.

With your use of the Living Will, you are informing the doctors and medical staff not to provide extraordinary life-preserving procedures if it has been determined by more than one doctor that your condition is incurable, terminal or irreversible and you are incapable of expressing yourself at that time.

Generally this happens when two physicians agree there is no chance for your recovery.