This document provides authorization to terminate life-prolonging procedures in the event that an individual is ever diagnosed with a terminal illness and his or her life is being artificially prolonged by a life support system. In such a situation, the attending physician and a second consulting physician would have to agree that an individual suffers from a condition from which there is no medical probability of recovery and that death is imminent. Even when two doctors agree that an individual is suffering from such a condition, the doctors must still obtain the approval of the health care surrogate before they proceed to discontinue the use of any life support system. In certain medical power of attorney documents, an individual is asked to specify those life-prolonging procedures that he or she wishes to have discontinued.