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- DIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIANS AS PROVIDED BY IDAHO
- NATURAL DEATH ACT, IDAHO CODE SECTION 39-4504
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- DIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIANS
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- Directive made this _________________ day of ___________. I
- _______________________, being of sound mind, willfully and
- voluntarily make known my desire that my life shall not be
- artificially prolonged under the circumstances below:
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- 1. In the absence of my ability to give directions regarding
- the use of artificial life-sustaining procedures as result of
- the disease process of my terminal condition, it is my
- intention that such artificial life-sustaining procedures
- should not be used when they would serve only to artificially
- prolong the moment of my death and where my physician determines
- that my death is imminent whether or not life-sustaining
- procedures are utilized.
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- 2. I have been diagnosed and notified that I have a
- terminal condition known as ________ by __________ M.D. whose
- address is ____________, and whose telephone number
- is ________________.
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- 3. This directive shall have no force and effect five years
- from the date filled in above.
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- 4. I understand the full import of this directive and I am
- emotionally and mentally competent to make this directive.
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- Signed _________________________________________________
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- STATE OF IDAHO
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- COUNTY OF _____________________________________________
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- We, _________________________, _______________________ ,
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- and _____________________________, the qualified patient and
- the witnesses respectively, who names are signed to the attached
- and foregoing instrument, being first duly sworn, do hereby
- declare to the undersigned authority that the qualified patient
- signed and executed the directive and the he signed willingly
- and he executed it as his free and voluntary act for the
- purposes therein expressed; and that each of the witnesses,
- in the presence and hearing of the qualified patient signed
- the directive as witness and that to the best of his knowledge
- the qualified patient was at the time 18 or more years of age,
- of sound mind and under no constraint or undue influence. We the
- undersigned witnesses further declare that we are not related
- to the qualified patient by blood or marriage; that we are not
- entitled to any portion of the estate of the qualified patient
- upon his decease under any will or codicil thereto presently
- existing or by operation of law then existing; that we are not
- the attending physician, an employee of the attending physician
- or a health facility in which the qualified patient is a patient,
- and that we are not a person who has a claim against any portion
- of the estate of the qualified patient upon his decease at the
- present time.
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- ________________________________________________
- Qualified Patient
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- Subscribed, sworn to and acknowledged before me by
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- _______________________, the qualified patient, and subscribed
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- and sworn to before me by ______________________________________
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- and _____________________, witnesses, this ______________ day of
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- ______________________, 19_______.
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- ________________________________________________
- Notary Public for the State of Idaho
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- Residing at __________________________, Idaho
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