Advance Medical Directives in Hong Kong
Make your Advance Medical Directive (AMD) online in around 15 minutes. A qualified Hong Kong solicitor checks it, then you sign with a doctor and one other witness. HKD 3,480.
How it works
Your answers fill the Cap. 651 model form. It takes about 15 minutes, and nothing is final until you say so.
HKD 3,480, paid once, before your first appointment.
Choose a time for the review of your form. It takes place in person, and your directive is not signed at that appointment.
A qualified Hong Kong solicitor reads your form and prints it. You take the printed document away with you. That is their one and only touch.
You arrange the appointment with a registered medical practitioner of your choosing, and you pay them directly.
Bring the printed form and one other adult witness to the appointment. The doctor confirms you understand your decisions, then you all sign together. Your witness must have no interest in your estate or in any insurance policy on your life. You keep the wet ink original, and there is nothing to register.
What you get
The wizard walks you through the decisions, one at a time. You specify which treatments you would refuse, and under what circumstances. No medical degree required. You review every word before anything is final.
A qualified Hong Kong solicitor reviews your form before you take it anywhere. That is their one and only touch. Your Advance Medical Directive must then be signed in the presence of a registered medical practitioner and one other adult witness. You arrange your own doctor. They confirm you understand your decisions and sign together with you and your witness. No registration. Done.
An AMD can be revoked at any time while you have mental capacity. Verbally. In writing. By destroying the document. No one can hold you to a decision you no longer want. You are always in control.
The hardest medical decisions fall on families who do not know what you would have wanted. Your AMD answers the questions before they are asked. It is a gift to the people who would otherwise have to decide for you.
Why an AMD matters
If you could no longer speak for yourself, what care would you want? This lets you decide in advance, on your own terms.
A doctor must keep treating you, and your family is left to decide what you would have wanted. They may not agree, and they may carry it forever.
Your decision is already made, in your own words. The burden is lifted from the people you love, and your wishes are respected.
Made under Hong Kong lawThe Advance Decision on Life-sustaining Treatment Ordinance (Cap. 651) is in force. It sets out how an advance directive is made, who has to be there when you sign, and when it applies. Your AMD follows it.
Pricing
No subscription and no renewal. Pay once and your AMD is yours.
You arrange your own doctor for the signing, and pay them directly. That is not part of what you pay Bequest.
Common questions
No. An AMD is a refusal of treatment. It is not a request to die. Cap. 651 sets out how you can say, in advance, that you do not want certain medical interventions. Euthanasia remains illegal in Hong Kong. This is not that.
Anyone aged 18 or over who can understand the decision and what it means. Your doctor confirms that understanding when you sign, and that is part of what the appointment is for. You cannot make an AMD on someone else's behalf.
Life-sustaining treatment. Artificial ventilation. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Artificial nutrition and hydration. Antibiotics for a life-threatening infection. You choose which ones, and under what conditions: terminal illness; persistent vegetative state and irreversible coma; or another end-stage, irreversible, life-limiting condition. Basic care, meaning offering food and drink by mouth, and palliative care always continue. An Advance Medical Directive cannot refuse them.
Your AMD speaks for you. Cap. 651 sets out how a medical team takes an advance decision into account, whatever anyone else in the room feels. We still strongly recommend talking your decisions through with your family before you sign, so nothing in it comes as a surprise.
Yes. At any time, as long as you have mental capacity. You can revoke your AMD verbally, in writing, or by destroying the document. You are never locked in.
They cover different things. An Enduring Power of Attorney covers property and financial decisions. An Advance Medical Directive covers medical treatment decisions. Many people have both. See the Enduring Power of Attorney
An AMD on its own does not tell paramedics what to do. If your heart stops outside hospital, the crew has no way to confirm at the scene whether the conditions your directive covers have been met, so they resuscitate.
The document that speaks to them is a Do Not Attempt Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation order. It is separate from your AMD, doctors issue it, it exists only on paper, and a crew acts on it only if they can see and verify it at the time. They are not required to look for it, so it has to be somewhere they will find it. If they cannot verify one, they resuscitate and take you to hospital.
Your AMD governs the decisions that come afterwards, once a doctor can confirm you are in one of the conditions it covers. If a DNACPR order is something you want, ask your doctor about it.
No. Unlike an EPOA (which must be registered with the High Court), an AMD does not need to be registered. You keep the signed original. We recommend giving a copy to your doctor, your family, and your hospital.
One form. HKD 3,480. Your voice, recorded. Your family, spared.
Signed with a registered medical practitioner of your choosing and one other adult witness, both arranged by you.
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