Time For Malaysia To Make Living Wills Legal

Oon Hooi Lin, Associate, Messrs Gerald Samuel

22-Aug-24 09:30

Time For Malaysia To Make Living Wills Legal

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Living wills are a legal instrument that allows us to make choices as to how we’d like to live and be medically treated in the event we can’t make these decisions any more. However its not recognised in Malaysia but are there exceptions to this? Oon Hooi Lin, a lawyer with 29 years of legal experience practising at Messrs Gerald Samuel tells us.

Image Credit: Living Will by Nick Youngson/ CC BY-SA 3.0/ Alpha Stock Images.

Produced by: Jake Lim, Wong Shou Ning

Presented by: Wong Shou Ning

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Categories: Law/Activism, wellness

Tags: legal instrument, living wills, malaysia laws, malaysian legal system,

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