Living Will & Healthcare Power of Attorney Kit – Fourth Edition (2026)

Choose who will speak for you. Make your healthcare wishes clear.

A living will records your treatment wishes. A healthcare power of attorney names someone you trust to make healthcare decisions when you cannot. This revised U.S. fourth-edition kit helps you understand both, work through your choices and prepare the appropriate documents.

Get the complete PDF kit, with editable forms and practical planning tools. The guide explains the decisions behind an advance directive, with examples and questions to discuss with your chosen agent and clinician.

What you receive

• The full 2026 kit as a colour PDF, including its front and back covers.
• A general combined living will and healthcare power of attorney form in editable Word format.
• A notice of revocation, with a record for notifying people who hold copies.
• Three planning worksheets covering your people and priorities, treatment discussions, and signing and sharing.
• Step-by-step completion and signing guidance, with a guide to all 50 states and Washington, D.C. and links to official sources.

Use the codes and instructions in the kit with an EstateBee account to access the editable documents. The combined-form download includes the planning worksheets on separate pages; the kit provides the completion and signing guidance. You can edit the Word files on a computer or print the forms for completion by hand.

Understand your options before you sign

Work through choosing an agent and alternates, deciding when authority should start, setting limits and keeping instructions consistent. The kit explains CPR, ventilation, dialysis, medically provided nutrition and hydration, comfort care and time-limited treatment trials. It also explains why an advance directive is different from a clinician’s DNR or POLST order.

Clear U.S. scope and state guidance

This is a general U.S. healthcare-planning kit, not a Canadian kit or a financial power of attorney. State requirements differ: use the state guide before completing the forms, and use an official or statutory state form where required. The general form is not a universal substitute for every state’s wording or signing requirements.

For adults planning ahead and families preparing for important care conversations. It does not replace individualized legal or medical advice. Previously published as Healthcare Power of Attorney & Living Will Kit by EstateBee.

EstateBee brings the guidance, planning tools and forms together so you can work through your healthcare wishes in a clear order.

• Practical explanations: understand the choices behind your documents, with examples and questions for your clinician.
• Editable downloads: use the included codes to obtain Word forms and planning worksheets, with completion and signing guidance in the kit.
• State requirements explained: consult the guide and official sources before completing or signing a document.
• A complete planning process: choose, prepare, sign, share and review.

The kit provides general U.S. guidance. It does not certify that a generic form will suit every state or every person’s circumstances.

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