Lageotakes Law Firm: Thomas Lageotakes Lawyer and CPA
Lageotakes Law Firm: Thomas Lageotakes Lawyer and CPA

Living Will - Lawyer in Naperville and Schaumburg

In addition to naming an agent under a Power of Attorney for Health Care, you may also want to sign a Living Will. A Living Will is a written statement that gives you the right to stop or not begin medical treatment delaying your death in situations where you aren’t able to state your wishes. Your Living Will is utilized when you have been diagnosed with a terminal condition and you do not have an agent who is available to make a decision to continue medical treatment delaying your death. The law defines a “terminal condition” as an incurable or irreversible condition where death is imminent and where the use of death-delaying procedures serves only to prolong the dying process.

HOW A LIVING WILL DIFFERS FROM POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE
Even though a Power of Attorney for Health Care and a Living Will apply to similar situations, a Living Will is very different. You do not name an agent in a Living Will. Instead you indicate your wishes about death-delaying procedures that your physician can rely upon in certain specific situations. For example, your Living Will may dictate that you should not receive cardiac resuscitation or blood transfusions. A Living Will applies only if you have a “terminal condition” which is determined by your doctor. A Living Will does not permit your doctor to stop water and tube feeding if their withdrawal would be the only cause of your death.
You may want to refuse medical treatment in a state other than Illinois that will not enforce your Power of Attorney for Health Care, but may enforce your Living Will. A Living Will, therefore, increases the chances that your wishes will be followed in the event you have a medical emergency in another state.

 

 

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Lageotakes Law Firm
Thomas Lageotakes, Attorney & CPA

 

Three Locations

 

Schaumburg office
1699 E Woodfield Rd Suite 400
Schaumburg, IL 60173

 

Naperville Office

111 E Jefferson Ave

Naperville, IL 60540

 

Chicago office by appointment only: Coming soon

 

Indiana Office-Westfield

TRESTLE DR

WESTFIELD, IN, 46074

 

Phone: 224 324-4400
Phone: 630 753-8035 630 753-8035

E-mail: thomas@lageotakeslaw.com

 

From our office in Schaumburg and Naperville, Illinois, we handle matters in areas of DuPage County, Cook County, Will County, Lake County and Kane County including Aurora, Barrington, Bartlett, Carol Stream, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Oak Brook, Roselle, Schaumburg and Streamwood.

 

 

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We handle matters in areas of DuPage, County, Cook county, Will County, and Kane County including Aurora, Barrington, Bartlett, Carol Stream, Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Oak Brook, Roselle, Schaumburg and Streamwood. Other Service areas: Hanover Park, Bartlett, Wayne, Glendale Heights, Glen Ellyn, Wheaton, West Chicago, Geneva, Batavia, Aurora, Carol Stream, Elgin, South Elgin, Streamwood, Barrington, South Barrington, Palatine, Medinah, East Dundee, West Dundee, Inverness, Huntley, Hampshire, Algonquin, Carpentensville, Sleepy Hollow, Campton Hills, Cary, Elburn, Montgomery, Lake Zurich, Rolling Meadows, Arlington Heights, Northbrook, Glenview, Winnetka, Skokie, Hoffman Estates, Mount Prospect, Elk Grove Village, Bloomingdale, Schaumburg, Roselle, Itasca, Wood Dale, Addison, Lombard, Downers Grove, Naperville, Lemont, Lisle and other Chicago area communities. 1699 E Woodfield Rd Suite 400, Schaumburg, IL 60173 111 E Jefferson Ave Naperville, IL 60540