Living will serves as an important way to guard an individual′s right to make end-of-life medical decisions and die a natural death. Shenzhen took the initiatives by including living will in its medical regulations as legal norms, which can improve the current situation of low signature rate and difficult execution and has practical significance in protecting the patient′s autonomy, alleviating family burden, integrating institutional medical resources, and establishing a rational concept of death in the society. At the same time, the extensive practice of the legislation pertinent to living warrants enhanced public awareness with conceptual clarification and publicity, and consultation and guidance on living will, and improved policy of living will by establishing the rigorous and operable supporting norms in the respects of the formal requirements, formatted texts, revision and revocation, storage method, procedures for medical judgment, etc. Starting from the establishment of a system for living will, a complete legal system for advance directives may be formed with supplementary medical agency system. Taking this as a breakthrough, a legal system of hospice care is expected to be gradually established, featuring a win-win situation of all parties including the individuals, families, medical institutions and state, and serving as a specific pathway of comprehensive rule of law.