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- DECLARATION OF A DESIRE FOR A NATURAL DEATH AS PROVIDED
- BY NORTH CAROLINA G.S. 90-321
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- I, ____________, being of sound mind, desire that my life not
- be prolonged by extraordinary means if my condition is
- determined to be terminal and incurable. I am aware and
- understand that this writing authorizes a physician to withhold
- or discontinue extraordinary means.
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- This the ______________ day of ___________________ 19______
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- ________________________________________________
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- SIGNATURE
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- I hereby state that the declarant, ___________________,
- being of sound mind signed the above declaration in my presence
- and that I am not related to the declarant by blood or marriage
- and that I do not know or have a reasonable expectation that
- I would be entitled to any portion of the estate of the
- declarant, under any existing will or codicil of the declarant,
- or as an heir under the Intestate Succession Act if the
- declarant died on this date without a will. I also state that I
- am not the declarant's attending physician or an employee of
- the declarant's attending physician or an employee of a health
- facility in which the declarant is a patient or an employee of a
- nursing home or any group-care home where the declarant resides.
- I further state that I do not now have any claim against the
- declarant.
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- Witness
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- ____________________________________________________________
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- Witness
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- ____________________________________________________________
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- Certificate
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- I, _____________________________________________(state if Clerk
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- of Superior Court or Deputy Clerk or Notary Public) for
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- _________________________________ County, hereby certify that
- _______________, the declarant, appeared before me and swore to me and to
- the witnesses in my presence that this instrument is his
- Declaration Of A Desire for A Natural Death, and that he
- willingly and voluntarily made and executed it as his free act
- and deed for the purposes expressed in it, I further certify
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- that __________________________________ and
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- __________________________ witnesses, appeared before me and
- swore that they witnessed _____________, declarant, sign the attached
- declaration, believing him to be of a sound mind; and also swore
- that at the time they witnessed the declaration (i) they were not
- related within the third degree to the declarant or to the
- declarant's spouse, and (ii) they did not know or have a
- reasonable expectation that they would be entitled to any
- portion of the estate of the declarant upon the declarant's death
- under any will of the declarant or codicil thereto then existing
- or under the Intestate Succession Act as it provides at that
- time, and (iii) they were not a physician attending the declarant
- or an employee of an attending physician or an employee of a
- health facility in which the declarant was a patient or an
- employee of a nursing home or any group-care home in which the
- declarant resided, and (iv) they did not have a claim against the
- declarant. I further certify that I am satisfied as to the
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- genuineness and due execution of the declaration. This the _____
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- _____ of ______________, 19______.
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- ________________________________________________
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- Title: ____________________________________
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- County of _________________________________________
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