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A living will tells your doctors and your family what you want at the very end of life. It speaks for you when you can’t, and it lifts a terrible burden from the people you love: instead of guessing, they can say “this is what she wanted.”

Life support

A living will only applies when two doctors agree you have a terminal and irreversible condition or are in a permanent coma. It does not affect your care if you’re sick or hurt but expected to recover.

Life support means machines and treatments that keep the body going when it can’t on its own, such as a breathing machine, CPR, or dialysis.

If I am dying and will not recover, or am permanently unconscious:

Feeding tubes and IV fluids

Louisiana asks you to decide this separately. When someone can no longer eat or drink, food and water can be given through a tube or IV. For some families this feels very different from a breathing machine, so think about it on its own.

Feeding tubes and IV fluids

Comfort and pain relief

Do you want medicine to keep you comfortable and free of pain, even if it might make you sleepy or shorten your life?
Where would you prefer to spend your last days, if possible?

Organ and tissue donation

Organ and tissue donation

Funeral and burial

In Louisiana you can name the person who will make decisions about your funeral and burial or cremation. Without that, the law decides, usually your spouse, then your adult children as a group, who must agree. If your family is likely to disagree, or if the person you’d want in charge isn’t your closest legal relative, this matters a great deal.

Do you prefer…