To Any Physician Who Is Treating Me, this document contains the following:
As my physician, you may rely on any information provided by my health care agent and decisions made by my attorney-in-fact for health care decisions or conservator of my person, if I am unable to make a decision for myself.
If the time comes when I am incapacitated to the point when I can no longer actively take part in decisions for my own life, and am unable to direct my physician as to my own medical care, I wish this statement to stand as a testament of my wishes.
I, ________________________________, the author of this document, request that, if my condition is deemed terminal or if I am determined to be permanently unconscious, I be allowed to die and not be kept alive through life support systems. By terminal condition, I mean that I have an incurable or irreversible medical condition which, without the administration of life support systems, will, in the opinion of my attending physician, result in death within a relatively short time. By permanently unconscious I mean that I am in a permanent coma or persistent vegetative state which is an irreversible condition in which I am at no time aware of myself or the environment and show no behavioral response to the environment.
Specific Instructions
Listed below are my instructions regarding particular types of life support systems. This list is not all-inclusive. My general statement that I not be kept alive through life support systems provided to me is limited only where I have indicated that I desire a particular treatment to be provided.
Provide | Withhold | |
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation | _________________ | _________________ |
Artificial Respiration (including a respirator) | _________________ | _________________ |
Artificial means of providing nutrition and hydration | _________________ | _________________ |
__________________________________________ | _________________ | _________________ |
__________________________________________ | _________________ | _________________ |
Other specific requests:
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I do want sufficient pain medication to maintain my physical comfort. I do not intend any direct taking of my life, but only that my dying not be unreasonably prolonged.
I appoint ______________________________________ to be my health care agent and my attorney-in-fact for health care decisions. If my attending physician determines that I am unable to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of health care decisions and unable to reach and communicate an informed decision regarding treatment, _______________________________ is authorized;
As My Health Care Agent to:
As My Attorney-In-Fact to:
If ________________________ is unwilling or unable to serve as my health care agent and my attorney-in-fact for health care decisions, I appoint ____________________________________ to be my alternative health care agent and my attorney-in-fact for health care decisions.
I make no anatomical gift at this time. | _______ (Initial here) |
I hereby make this anatomical gift,
if medically acceptable, to take effect upon my death |
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I give: (check one)
____________________ (1) any needed organs or parts
____________________ (2) only the following organs or parts
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to be donated for: (check one)
____________________ (1) any of the purposes stated in subsection (a) of section 19a-279f of the
general statutes
____________________ (2) these limited purposes _______________________________________.
If a conservator of my person should need to be appointed, I designate ________________________, be appointed my conservator. If _________________________ is unwilling or unable to serve as my conservator, I designate ____________________________. No bond shall be required of either of them in any jurisdiction.
These requests, appointments, and designations are made after careful reflection, while I am of sound mind. Any party receiving a duly executed copy or facsimile of this document may rely upon it unless such party has received actual notice of my revocation of it.
Date _______________, 200____ x__________________________________L.S.
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
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COUNTY OF __________________________ )
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Personally appeared ____________________________, signer of the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his/her free act and deed, before me, this _________ day of _________________________, 200____.
_____________________________
Commissioner of the Superior Court
Notary Public
My Commission expires: _________
This document was signed in our presence by _____________________________ the author of this document, who appeared to be eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind and able to understand the nature and consequences of health care decisions at the time this document was signed. The author appeared to be under no improper influence. We have subscribed this document in the author's presence and at the author's request and in the presence of each other.
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(NOTE: This Form is Optional)
STATE OF CONNECTICUT
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ss. __________________________
COUNTY OF ____________________________
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We, the subscribing witnesses, being duly sworn, say that we witnessed the execution of these health care instructions, the appointments of a health care agent and an attorney-in-fact, the designation of a conservator for future incapacity and a document of anatomical gift by the author of this document; that the author subscribed, published and declared the same to be the author's instructions, appointments and designation in our presence; that we thereafter subscribed the document as witnesses in the author's presence, at the author's request and in the presence of each other; that at the time of the execution of said document the author appeared to us to be eighteen years of age or older, of sound mind, able to understand the nature and consequences of said document, and under no improper influence, and we make this affidavit at the author's request this _____ day of ______________________, 200____.
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Personally appeared ____________________________, signer of the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his/her free act and deed, before me, this ______ day of _________________________, 200____.
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Commissioner of the Superior Court
Notary
Public
My Commission
expires: _____________