Advanced healthcare directives are documents that your wishes are written on in the case that you need medical assistance and you can’t speak for yourself, you’ve stated what you want to happen. A living will, for instance, you state that you don’t want to be kept alive on machines, if it’s the only way that you can be kept alive. A declaration of a pre-need guardian in the state of Florida is saying that, if I lose capacity, here’s who I want to have control over my property or over myself.