Table 4.

Prior experience with own life-threatening diseases or family members in need of care and presence of AD

	No AD	Completion of AD
Cared for a family member until her/his death (N=2672)*
No	1097 (76)	341 (24)
Yes	822 (67)	412 (33)
Suffered from a life-threatening disease once before (N=2636)*
No	1333 (76)	419 (24)
Yes	568 (64)	316 (36)

*N on this variable differs from the total N due to missing values.

For all variables, the numbers of participants (percentages in brackets) are given

AD, advance directive.