Important links from The Greatest Gift

This links directly to a simple downloadable and fillable PDF form -- Advance Health Care Directive -- that can be used for residents of California. Simple and free. 

The California Hospital Association also has an Advance Health Care Directive form that can be downloaded.  Also free to download and use.

This links to a downloadable SAMPLE form for creating a unique and very different type of Advance Health Care Directive.  This is an organization based in Florida and you can learn more by visiting their website here -- https://www.fivewishes.org/

Very thorough and useful website that focuses on helping people learn how to have a clear voice in their own, or their loved ones, medical planning.  Also includes useful links to an Advance Directive (available in 12 languages) as well as other insightful ideas for planning and preparing.

Includes religious forms, forms in multiple languages, and different perspectives

Mis Decisiones al Final de la Vida —  Guía de Planificación Avanzada y Juego de Herramientas

My Decisions at the End of Life — Advanced Planning Guide and Toolkit

Physician  Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) is a form that gives  seriously-ill patients more control over their end-of-life care,  including medical treatment, extraordinary measures (such as a  ventilator or feeding tube) and CPR.

Detailed legal information provided by the American Bar Association

Downloadable PDF "Toolkit for Healthcare Advance Planning"

Excellent resource 

A fun and interactive way to drill down deeply in to what you and your family members really think and want for healthcare choices and options at end-of-life.

From the folks at "Caring Choices"

Free guide for future healthcare decisions -- from the "Planning My Way" organization

From the Podcast On Being with Krista Tippett:  Atul Gawande is a surgeon, writer, and public health official. His pieces for The New Yorker and his books have been read by millions, most famously Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End.