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- STATUTORY DECLARATION IN CONFORMANCE WITH WEST VIRGINIA
- NATURAL DEATH ACT, 16-30-3
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- DECLARATION OF ___________________________________
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- Declaration made this __________ day of ________________
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- 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 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
- is 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- withheld or withdrawn, and that I be permitted to die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 nutrition, medication
- or the performance of any medical procedure deemed necessary to
- provide me with comfort, care or to alleviate pain.
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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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- Address: ________________________________________________________
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- I did not sign the declarant's signature above for
- or at the direction of the declarant. I am at least eighteen
- years of age and am not related to the declarant by blood or
- marriage, entitled to any portion of the estate of the declarant
- according to the laws of intestate succession of the State of
- West Virginia, or to the best of my knowledge under any will of
- declarant or codicil thereto, or directly financially responsible
- for declarant's medical care. I am not the declarant's attending
- physician, an employee of the attending physician, nor an
- employee of the health facility in which the declarant is a
- patient.
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- ________________________________________________
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- Witness
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- ________________________________________________
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- Witness
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- STATE OF ________________________
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- COUNTY OF _______________________
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- This day personally appeared before me, the undersigned
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- authority, a Notary Public in and for ______________ County,
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- ___________________________State, ______________________________
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- _______________________________(Witnesses) who, being first being
- duly sworn, say that they are the subscribing witnesses to the
- declaration of ____________, the declarant, signed, sealed and
- published and declared the same as and for his declaration, in
- the presence of both these affiants; and that these affiants, at
- the request of said declarant, in the presence of each other, and
- in the presence of said declarant, all present at the same time,
- signed their names as attesting witnesses to said declaration.
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- Affiants further say that this affidavit is made at the
- request of _______, declarant, and in his presence, and that _______
- ______ at the time the declaration was executed, in the opinion of the
- affiants, of sound mind and memory, and over the age of eighteen
- years.
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- Taken, subscribed and sworn to before me by ____________
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- ___________ (witness) and ____________________________ (witness)
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- this _______ day of __________________________________, 19_____.
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- My commission expires: __________________
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- ___________________________________
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- Notary Public
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