{"id":13,"date":"2023-06-26T23:27:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T23:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2025-08-10T14:31:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T04:31:22","slug":"documents","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"Documents"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-ea1118af404e8612f3c07780d93aceed\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/advancecareplanning.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Advance Care Planning website<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;has forms and information brochures for each state\/territory.  Choose their &#8220;Create Your Plan&#8221; page and select your state\/territory to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0b88550b40eb7026101e6ea2bfdc5918\">Note that a Heath Direction (called an Advance Directive in some states) allows you to say what treatment you do NOT want if you become unable to make your wishes known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-a91c19ab0da4dd4efc7f331e4b603b32\">However a Health Direction does NOT allow you to request voluntary assisted dying (VAD). Although VAD will become available to eligible persons in November 2025, you cannot be approved for VAD if you do not have decision-making capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0dc01cdffde09bcea453d73597a4382d\">See <a href=\"https:\/\/exitact.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ExitACTsubmission2023.pdf\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/exitact.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ExitACTsubmission2023.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Exit ACT\u2019s submission re VAD to ACT Govt December 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-485b29fde9e4acd1fbf30426dc3672db\"><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The&nbsp;Advance Care Planning website&nbsp;has forms and information brochures for each state\/territory. Choose their &#8220;Create Your Plan&#8221; page and select your state\/territory to learn more. Note that a Heath Direction (called &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exitact.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}