Step 4:
Prepare your document

"Waiting, are they, waiting are they? Well, let'em wait."
Ethan Allen (d.1789) upon being told
that the angels were waiting for him.

Quoted in Jones, Clarence,
The Complete Book of Death and Dying.
New York: Harper Collins. 1997

Congratulations! You are now ready to prepare your documents and on your way to providing a good measure of peace of mind for yourself and your family.

The Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney conforms to Arizona law. If you want to use this form in another state, please make certain that it meets that state’s requirements. If you complete this form in Arizona, it will be valid in most other states.

There are three ways of obtaining the advance directive form and instructions:

  1. Download and print the FORM file. Then load the INSTRUCTIONS file and read on-line.
  2. Copy (save) the FORM and INSTRUCTIONS files on your computer’s hard drive. Then you can read/print while off-line
  3. Order the form and the instructions by mail

Once you have obtained your form and instructions by one of the three methods listed above, you will be able to complete the advance care planning process. However, you also may wish to check below to see if you need any of the special purpose forms available through this web site.

Reading and printing the Living Will & Health Care Power of Attorney form and instructions

Obtaining the form and instructions from this web site requires Acrobat Reader software from Adobe Systems, Incorporated. Acrobat Reader software is available at no charge. Using this software will enable you to view and print a properly formatted form from any computer.

If you do not already have Acrobat Reader on your computer, you need first to download Acrobat Reader from Adobe's Web Site and install it on your system. We provide a link to that site.

Download Acrobat Reader   from Adobe Systems' World-Wide Web

There is a separate page of Acrobat download instructions available which you may wish to go to now and print to guide you through that process You can download the reader from that page or from the link below.

Acrobat download instructions

After Acrobat Reader has been installed on your computers hard drive, you are ready to obtain the form and instructions.

The next step is to open or save to your hard drive the following three files of forms and instructions. Use your browser back arrow to return to this page after opening each document:

FORM This includes the Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney Form and materials for implementation

INSTRUCTIONS Explanations of each section of the Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney Form

Ordering forms by mail

Price List is a complete list of advance directives materials. Print that page, mark what you want, and send the page and your check, made payable to "Dorothy Garske Center," to:

Dorothy Garske Center
2140 East 5th Street
Suite 8
Temp, AZ 85281

Forms for special situations.

Every adult should complete the Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney form. You may also want to complete attachments dealing with special situations (pregnancy; poor current quality of life; or the wish to disqualify certain family members from serving as your surrogate). Some will want to complete an orange Prehospital Medical Care Directive to refuse cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CRP) under all circumstances. Theses documents and instructions on their use are available by mail and in Special Purpose Forms .

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