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- DIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIANS AS PROVIDED BY CALIFORNIA
- HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE SECTION 7187
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- DIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIANS
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- Directive made this _________________ day of ___________.
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- I, ______________, being of sound mind, willfully and voluntarily
- make known my desire that my life shall not be artificially
- prolonged under the circumstances set forth below,
- do hereby declare:
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- 1. If at any time I should have an incurable injury, disease,
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- or illness certified to be a terminal condition by two
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- physicians, and where the application of life-sustaining
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- procedures would serve only to artificially prolong the moment
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- of my death and where my physician determines that my death
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- is imminent whether or not life-sustaining procedures are
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- utilized, I direct that such procedures be withheld or
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- withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die naturally,
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- 2. In the absence of my ability to give directions regarding
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- the use of such life-sustaining procedures, it is my intention
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- that this directive shall be honored by my family and
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- physician(s) as the final expression of my legal right to refuse
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- medical or surgical treatment and accept the consequences from
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- such refusal.
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- 3. If I have been diagnosed as pregnant and that diagnosis is
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- known to my physician, this directive shall have no force or
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- effect during the course of my pregnancy.
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- 4. I have been diagnosed and notified at least 14 days ago as
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- having a terminal condition by ___________, M.D. whose address is
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- ___________________________________________.
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- I understand that if I have not filed in the physicians name and
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- address, it shall be presumed that I did not have a terminal
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- condition when I made out this directive.
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- 5. This directive shall have no force and effect five years
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- from the date filled in above.
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- 6. I understand the full import of this directive and I am
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- emotionally and mentally competent to make this directive.
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- _________________________________________________
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- The declarant has been personally known to me and
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- I believe him or her to be of sound mind.
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- Witness __________________________________________________
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- Witness __________________________________________________
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