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- DECLARATION PROVIDED BY COLORADO MEDICAL TREATMENT DECISION
- ACT, COLORADO STATUTES 15-18-104
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- DECLARATION AS TO MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TREATMENT
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- I ________________, being of sound mind and at least eighteen years
- of age, direct that my life shall not be artificially prolonged
- under the circumstances set forth below and hereby declare that:
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- 1. If at any time my attending physician and one other
- physician certify in writing that:
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- a. I have an injury, disease, or illness which is not
- curable or reversible and which, in their judgment, is a
- terminal condition; and
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- b. For a period of forty-eight consecutive hours or more,
- I have been unconscious, comatose, or otherwise incompetent
- so as to be unable to make or communicate responsive decisions
- concerning my person; then,
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- I direct that life-sustaining procedures shall be withdrawn
- and withheld, it being understood that life-sustaining procedures
- shall not include any medical procedure or intervention for
- nourishment or considered necessary by the attending physician
- to provide comfort or alleviate pain.
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- 2. I execute this declaration, as my free and voluntary act,
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- this ___________________ day of _____________________, 19______.
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- By ___________________________________
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- __________________________________________, Declarant
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- The foregoing instrument was signed and declared by
- @001 to be his declaration, in the presence of us, who, in his
- presence, in the presence of each other, and at his request
- have signed our names below as witnesses, and we declare that, at
- the time of the execution of this instrument, the declarant,
- according to our best knowledge and belief, was of sound mind and
- under no constraint or undue influence.
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- Dated at ______________________, Colorado, this ___________
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- day of _____________________________________, 19________.
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- ________________________________________________________
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- Name and address
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- Name and address
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- STATE OF COLORADO
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- COUNTY of ____________________________________
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- Subscribed and sworn to before me by ______________________________,
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- the declarant, and __________________________________, and
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- ____________________________________, witnesses, as the voluntary
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- act and deed of the declarant, this ________________ day of
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- ____________________ 19________.
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- ________________________________________
- Notary Public
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