Living Will

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Living will

Eurovoc reference

7396 Living will

Related concepts

• Euthanasia

Alternative Concepts

• Advance declaration
• Advance directive
• Health care directive

Scope

A health care directive that tells others how a person would like to be treated if they lose their capacity to make decisions about health care. The term living will is often used when a person is planning for their last illness, but a health care directi

Other Languages

• Spanish: Testamento vital
• French: Testament de vie
• German: Medizinisches Testament
• Italian: Testamento di vita
• Portuguese: Testamento vital
• Polish: Testament życia

Properties and Values of Living will

• URI https://en.legalthesaurus.org/living-will/
• skos:Concept: https://en.legalthesaurus.org/living-will/

Preferred lexical labels

• skos:prefLabel: Living will (en) (USE)
• Term in other languages: see above

Generic concepts

• skos:broader: See above (GT)
• skos:hasTopConcept: See above (Areas)

Specific concepts

• skos:narrower: See the specific concepts above (ST)

Related concepts

• skos:related: see the associative relationships above (RT)
• skos:related: related (other related concepts)

Alternative lexical labels

• skos:altLabel: see the alternative concepts above (UF)
• skos:altLabel: synonym (S)
• skos:altLabel: look up Living will abbreviations and acronyms (A)

Documentation notes

• skos:scopeNote: this concept on Living will defines the activities of Living will (en)
• skos:editorialNote: Editorial Note on Living will (EN)
• skos:notation: Notation on Living will: see reference Eurovoc (N)
• skos:definition: Living will definition:
• skos:example: example of Living will usage:

Thematic indexing

• dct:subject: https://lawin.org/living-will/
• Definitions: See the meaning(s) of Living will
• Search the digital platform (S)

Other general information

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