Personal Directives come into effect if you suffer from a severe injury or illness and cannot make decisions on non-financial matters. The trigger for Personal Directives requires at least one Physician or Psychologist to consult on the impact of their decision-making capacity. The document allows you to choose someone you trust to act on your behalf after you’ve lost capacity.
Imagine you are in an accident and lose your ability. To make matters worse, you need some dental work. You cannot consent to the dental work, and you remain in constant pain, and there is nothing your family can do to help. It’s too late. Personal Directives is a have and not need than need and not have type documents. Like a Will and EPA, everyone should have one.