Congregational Care - Advanced Directives

Advanced Directives and Living Wills—A Guide to Maryland Law on Health Care Decisions

Who makes the important decisions about medical care and procedures when there is a serious, life-threatening condition? Over the years here at RUC we have encouraged everyone to complete a packet which includes your Advance Directives, Living Will, funeral arrangements, and persons to be contacted. The Congregational Care Committee has threatened (in our fantasies) some Sunday at Worship to close the doors and keep everyone there until such packets are completed. Even without such drastic measures a number of you have left copies of those forms, sealed, with the office here at RUC.

The packets we have are still accurate, but for the very latest information, you can contact the Office of the Attorney General for the State of Maryland who issues an extensive compilation of advice, guidance, and forms that a guide to comply with Maryland’s legal requirements. So, for the latest, see www.oag.state.md.us/healthpol/adirective.pdf.