Massachusetts Health Care Proxy
A Massachusetts Health Care Proxy (sometimes called in other states an “advance medical directive”) is a document that specifies the type of medical and personal care you would want should you lose the ability to make and communicate your own decisions. Anyone over the age of 18 may execute a Massachusetts Health Care Proxy, and this document is legally binding in Massachusetts. Your advance directive can specify who will make and communicate decisions for you, and it can set out the circumstances under which you would not like your life to be prolonged if, for example, you were in a coma with no reasonable chance of recovery.