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This is the first posting for the Rocket Lawyer blog. What is Rocket Lawyer? Well, it's not rocket science! Many of the legal tasks that people need to get done can be accomplished via the Internet, at a fraction of the cost of offline legal assistance. For example, everyone should have a living will, and if you read on, you will see how to obtain one for free. Rocket Lawyer is dedicated to helping people locate the information and tools they need to do common legal tasks themselves and save. Everyone should have a will, a durable power of attorney and a living will (advance healthcare directive). Most people don't have these essential documents completed because the process has been expensive and confusing. Hopefully, that will start to change now. In this blog, we will post for free some of the thousands of pages of information from our Rocket Lawyer law library. This will help you to create your own will, power of attorney, living will, small business documents, legal letters and thousands of other forms and legal documents. The information in this blog will point you in the right direction. While we do hope that you will consider trying RocketLawyer.com and becoming a patron, we want you to be able to find enough good information for free to help you with your legal matters whether or not you ultimately patronize our paid services. So, thanks for reading the first posting of our Rocket Lawyer blog. Please visit http://www.rocketlawyer.com for more information about us. Now, as promised, here is our first free article: What is a Living Will?

A Living Will is a document where you can state your wishes regarding life-sustaining treatment in the event that you either have a terminal illness and are expected to die within a relatively short time or are permanently unconscious. In general, individuals use Living Wills to indicate whether they want certain medical treatment withheld or withdrawn in order to allow a more natural death if the treatment is merely prolonging the dying process or there is no hope of recovery.

A Living Will is only effective when you are no longer able to make and communicate your own wishes. For example, if you suffer a stroke or are in a motor vehicle accident and suffer a severe brain injury so that you are in a coma, you may not be able to communicate your wishes. A Living Will in these circumstances helps you communicate your desires about certain medical procedures.

A famous example of a situation where a living will would have helped is the Terri Schiavo case:

Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_will

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