Your plan can provide instructions and authorizations for your medical care for when you become incapacitated.

The plan determines who makes decisions for you. You can separate the responsibility for the decisions between different people in any way you choose. You can specify your standards of care and your preferences for life support and other medical issues in advance. Your instructions can eliminate fighting among those who love you the most because you decided those things in advance, yourself, instead of leaving it to them to guess. You can also receive treatments faster in some situations by giving proper permissions to the people you want making decisions for you for those times when you can’t communicate those wishes about your own care.