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- STATUTORY DECLARATION IN CONFORMANCE WITH LOUISIANA NATURAL
- DEATH ACT, LOUISIANA R.S. 40:1299.58.3
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- DECLARATION OF ____________________________
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- Declaration made this __________ day of ________________
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- 19________.
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- I _________________, being of sound mind, willfully and
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- voluntarily make known my desire that my dying shall not
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- be artificially prolonged under the circumstances set forth
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- below, do hereby declare:
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- If at any time I should have an incurable injury,
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- disease, or illness certified to be a terminal and irreversible
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- condition by two physicians who have personally examined me,
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- one of whom shall be my attending physician, and the physicians
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- have determined that my death will occur whether or not life-
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- sustaining procedures are utilized and where the application
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- of life-sustaining procedures would serve only to artificially
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- prolong the dying process, I direct that such procedures be
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- withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die
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- naturally with only the administration of medication or the
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- performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary to
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- provide me with comfort care.
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- In the absence of my ability to give directions
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- regarding the use of such life-sustaining procedures, it is
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- my intention that this declaration shall be honored by my
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- family and physicians as the final expression of my legal right
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- to refuse medical or surgical treatment and accept the
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- consequences from such refusal.
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- I understand the full import of this declaration and
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- I am emotionally and mentally competent to make this
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- declaration.
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- ________________________________________
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- City of residence: _____________________________________________
- Parish of residence: ___________________________________________
- State of residence: ____________________________________________
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- Date: __________________________________
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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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- Date: _________________________
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