MyLivingWill™

The cost for the MyLivingWill™ service is R199. With this payment, you can step through the interactive service and download your document as often as you wish for one year. At the end of that year, you can choose to maintain an account in case you wish to make changes in the future. If you choose not to do this, your printed Living Will would still last you for the rest of your life, and R199 is all you will ever pay.

In South Africa, your Living Will and Advance Directives must be signed in the presence of two witnesses to become a legal document.

You must step through the service and then download and print your Living Will. You then gather together with your two witnesses and all three of you sign the document. More details about this process are available within the service itself.

We also maintain an online version of your document, but this is for your convenience only. It makes the process of updating your Living Will much easier. But the online version is not a legal document. You can still set up access to your online version for your Keyholders®. This would be useful if your printed, signed document cannot be found. Although your Keyholder® would not gain access to your legal, printed document, they would still be able to see the expression of your wishes for health care.

A Living Will is completely different to your Last Will and Testament. The Living Will is in effect whilst you are alive, but unable to communicate your own wishes. In particular, the Living Will allows you to express your wishes for treatment when you are in a coma, or when your death has become inevitable.

With the standard price of R199 you can update your document as often as you wish for one year. At the end of that year, you will be invited to maintain an account with us so that you can make updates in the future. If you choose to ignore that invitation, we do not automatically charge you, and you will lose the option to update your Living Will. However, you will always have your printed document that will last you for the rest of your life.

We offer account extension options of 1 year, 5 years, 10 years, 25 years and lifetime. Details of the membership packages available can be found on our Products & Prices page.

Using our service, you can update your Living Will or Advance Directives as many times as you wish all the time you have an active account with us. If you change your mind about a particular treatment, just login to your account, click to modify your Living Will, and make the change.

There are eleven sections in our service, and the document can be completed in as little as 15 minutes. It is a good idea to give some thought to your health care wishes before starting the service, although when you step through the sections, you will probably be asked questions you have not yet considered. Some questions may even benefit from consultation with family and loved-ones.

You do have up to one year to complete the document. So there is no pressure to answer everything in one session. If you get stuck, simply save your work and return at a later date using your unique User ID and password.

We do store your information in our database so that you do not have to complete the service in one sitting. However, it can only be accessed using your unique User ID and Password, or by your trusted Keyholders® if you have them granted access. The information is fully encrypted on our servers, so nothing is stored as plain text. We do not store your document in a retrievable format in our system.

There are two additional options that can trigger a temporary decryption of your information: if you choose to have your document printed and posted to you, or if you choose to have the document reviewed by one of our lawyers.

When information passes from your computer to ours, we use 256-bit SSL encryption. You can be assured that this is in place when a small padlock appears on most browsers. It means that even if somebody were to intercept any messages travelling between your computer and our database, the information would be unintelligible to them.

Information on our servers is protected by RSA encryption, the most sophisticated encryption algorithm available today. Nothing is stored as plain text and no information is tied to your profile.

We have been offering our service since 2001 and have never lost any data. There is a good reason for this. We perform daily backups on our servers, so even if there was a natural disaster, your data cannot be lost. In addition, we have best-in-class physical protection of our servers including full system redundancy, 24x7 monitoring, and uniformed guard service. All personnel access to our servers is protected with biometric hand scanners and individually key coded cabinets.

Many of our services have no dependency on your location. Including MyFuneral™, MyLifeLocker™, MyVault™ and MyMessages™. Anybody from anywhere in the world can use these services and get tremendous value from them.

In South Africa, we have specific legal services for preparing your Last Will and Testament, Expat Will and Living Will. These comply with the laws of South Africa.

Throughout the eleven sections in the Living Will service there is help on every page. There is even help on specific data fields within the service.

If you have any questions about the service, or about LegalWills.co.za in general, please contact us at [email protected].