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- DECLARATION AS PROVIDED BY HAWAII REVISED STATUTES CHAPTER 327D
- SECTION 4
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- DECLARATION
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- A. Statement of Declarant
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- Declaration made this __________________ day of
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- _____________, 19_______. I,__________________ being of sound mind,
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- willfully and voluntarily make known my desire that my dying
- shall not be artificially prolonged under the circumstances set
- forth below, and do hereby declare:
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- If at any time I should have an incurable or
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- irreversible condition certified to be terminal by two physicians
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- who have personally examined me, one of whom shall be my
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- attending physician, and the physicians have determined that I am
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- unable to make decisions concerning my medical treatment, and
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- that without administration of life-sustaining treatment my death
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- will occur in a relatively short time, and where the application
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- of life-sustaining procedures would serve only to prolong
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- artificially the dying process, I direct that such procedures be
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- withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die naturally
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- with only the administration of medication, nourishment, or
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- fluids or the performance of any medical procedure deemed
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- necessary to provide me with comfort or to alleviate pain.
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- I understand the full import of this declaration
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- and I am emotionally and mentally competent to make this
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- declaration.
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- Signed:
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- ________________________________________________________________
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- STATE OF _______________________________________________________
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- COUNTY OF ______________________________________________________
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- B. Statement of Witnesses
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- I am at least 18 years of age and
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- -not related to the declarant by blood, marriage or adoption; and
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- -not the attending physician, an employee of the attending
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- physician, or an employee of the medical care facility in which
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- the declarant is a patient.
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- The declarant is personally known to me and I
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- believe the declarant to be of sound mind.
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- Witness:
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- _______________________________________________________________
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- Address:
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- Witness:
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- _______________________________________________________________
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- Address:
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- C) Notarization
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- Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me by
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- @001, the declarant, and subscribed and sworn to before me by
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- ___________________ and ___________________, witnesses, this
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- ______________ day of ________________________, 19_______.
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- _____________________________________
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- Official Capacity: _________________
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