living will

1. 1.

   a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness

   “after he discovered he had AIDS he drew up a living will”

   Broaderlegal document

   law

Questions about living will

What does living will mean?

living will means "a document written by someone still legally capable requesting that he should be allowed to die if subsequently severely disabled or suffering terminal illness".

Is living will a common word?

living will is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.