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- STATUTORY DECLARATION IN CONFORMANCE WITH DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
- NATURAL DEATH ACT OF 1981, D.C. CODE SECTION 6-2422
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- DECLARATION OF _____________________________
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- Declaration made this __________ day of ________________
- 19________. I ____________________, being of sound mind,
- willfully and voluntarily make known my desires that my
- dying shall not be artificially prolonged under the
- circumstances set forth below, do declare:
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- If at any time I should have an incurable injury,
- disease, or illness certified to be a terminal condition by
- two physicians who have personally examined me, one of whom
- shall be my attending physician, and the physicians have
- determined that my death will occur whether or not life-
- sustaining procedures are utilized and where the application
- of life-sustaining procedures would serve only to artificially
- prolong the dying process, I direct that such procedures be
- withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die
- naturally with only the administration of medication or the
- performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary to
- provide me with comfort care or to alleviate pain.
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- In the absence of my ability to give directions
- regarding the use of such life-sustaining procedures, it is
- my intention that this declaration shall be honored by my
- family and physicians as the final expression of my legal right
- to refuse medical or surgical treatment and accept the
- consequences from such refusal.
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- I understand the full import of this declaration and
- I am emotionally and mentally competent to make this
- declaration.
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- ________________________________________
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- City of residence: ___________________________________________
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- County of residence: _________________________________________
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- State of residence: __________________________________________
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- Date: __________________________________
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- I believe the declarant to be of sound mind. I did
- not sign the declarant's signature above for or at the
- direction of the declarant. I am not related to the declarant
- by blood or marriage, entitled to any portion of the estate of
- the declarant according to the laws of intestate succession of
- the District of Columbia or under any will of declarant or
- codicil thereto, or directly financially responsible for
- declarant's medical care. I am not the declarant's attending
- physician, an employee of the attending physician, or an
- employee of the health facility in which the declarant is a
- patient.
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- Witness ___________________________________________
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- Witness ___________________________________________
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- Date: ___________________
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