Advance Directives are being used for other purposes as well in light of recent events. Some of these include:
- To help serve as a buffer against future employment termination based on a new condition of employment such as a medical treatment mandate for employees. Having an advance medical directive in place when first employed or before a mandate takes effect can help ensure that if your employment is terminated because of non-compliance, you should still be eligible to receive unemployment. It may also provide evidence of discrimination to help attain remedy for financial losses resulting from your termination.
- To ensure that if you or your loved ones are treated against their wishes that there would be evidence of this in writing, so that you have a better chance of being granted restitution for damages due to wrongful injury or financial loss.
- To help avoid being injured by treatments that may be harmful to you given your unique medical history. - To help protect the relationship you have built with your primary care physician, so that the mandates of public health organizations do not take precedence over or interfere with the treatment plans you have in place.
- To protect children from being coerced or treated in school without parental knowledge or consent.
- To help public organizations see that the potential cost of litigation may outweigh the cost of subsidy loss for noncompliance with discriminatory mandates.
