Sometimes referred to as a “Living Will”, the Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates is a document indicating the patient’s intentions should the patient become disabled and lack the legal capacity to make decisions for himself or herself about life-sustaining treatment. Generally, the Directive deals with health care measures that the patient wants imposed should he or she become unable to express his or her desires. The statutory form Directive divides medical conditions into two broad categories—”irreversible conditions” and “terminal conditions”—and gives the patient the choice in each case to have life-sustaining procedures either applied or withheld. You may also include additional requests to clarify the types of treatments you would want or would not want to have under certain circumstances.