Registering Your Living Will or Power of Attorney
Health care directives (a broad name for living wills, health care powers of attorney and the like) are meant to be easily accessible, since they could be needed in an emergency. That's why I always give my clients extra copies of these documents, to share with their agent(s), doctor, hospital, etc. You can also follow the advice of this Wall Street Journal article:
"U.S. Living Will Registry (www.uslivingwillregistry.com), based in Westfield, N.J., will store an electronic version of your health-care directive and provide copies as needed, 24 hours a day, to health-care providers anywhere in the country. There's no charge for the service. (The operation is funded by health-care providers.) Started in 1996, the operation has about 15,000 participants.
More recently, a group called MyHealthDirective.com has joined forces with Aging With Dignity to provide electronic storage of individuals' versions of Five Wishes. The service currently costs $2 a year (the $5 price tag on Five Wishes itself includes the first year of storage)."
Having a health care directive that no one can find when it's needed is the same as having no health care directive at all.
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