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- STATUTORY DECLARATION IN CONFORMANCE WITH NEW HAMPHSIRE TERMINAL
- CARE DOCUMENT LAW, N.H. R.S. 137-H: 3
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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 hereby 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- withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die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, sustenance,
- or the performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary to
- provide me with comfort care.
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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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- Signature
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- State of _____________________________________________
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- County _______________________________________________
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- We, the declarant and the witnesses, being duly sworn
- each declare to the notary public or justice of the peace or
- other official signing below as follows:
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- 1. The declarant signed the instrument as a free and voluntary
- act for the purposes expressed, or expressly directed another
- to sign for him.
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- 2. Each witness signed at the request of the declarant, in his
- presence, and in the presence of the other witness.
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- 3. To the best of my knowledge at the time of the signing the
- declarant was at least 18 years of age, and was of sane mind
- and under no constraint or undue influence.
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- ______________________________________________
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- Declarant
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- ________________________________________________
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- Witness
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- ________________________________________________
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- Witness
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- Sworn to and signed before me by _________ declarant, and ___________
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- ________________ witnesses on _____________________, 199____.
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- ___________________________________________________
- Signature
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- Official Capacity: _____________________
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