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Advance directives are normally one or more documents that list your health care instructions. An advance. directive may name a person of your choice to make health care choices for you when you cannot make the. choices for yourself. If you want, you may use an advance directive to prevent certain people from making. health care decisions on your behalf. Your advance directives will not take away your right to decide your current health care. As long as you are. able to decide and express your own decisions, your advance directives will not be used.
2) Advance Directive â new as of September 1, 2011, a legal document in BC which allows you to provide written instructions about what health care you do or do not want in the future, if you become incapable and a health care decision needs to be made.here are legal personal planning options available in BC to address health care wishes for âend of lifeâ situations, and to plan for the future. 1) Representation Agreement-a way for you to give legal authority on health care and personal care to someone you trust.