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- STATE LIVING WILL SUMMARY
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- INDIANA
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- Synopsis: Indiana has a strong living will statute. The physician
- however, may decline to effectuate or to transfer the patient if
- he has a reasonable fear that the living will is either invalid
- or he feels that the patient no longer intends for the
- declaration to be valid. A physician who does not believe that
- the patient's living will still expresses his intentions must
- make inquiries of any of the following: 1) any court appointed
- guardian 2) a person designated in writings left by the patient
- to make treatment decisions for him 3) The patient's spouse 4) An
- adult child (or the majority of them) 5) The parents of the
- patient 6) The adult siblings of the patient (or the majority of
- them) 7)the patient's clergymen or others having first hand
- knowledge of the patient's desires. After the investigation, the
- doctor may execute the living will or, may go to court to
- determine the validity of the living will. To prepare an Indiana
- living will using the state suggested form, please select this
- option from the opening menu. Remember that the publisher
- recommends preparing a "uniform" living will in addition to the
- form suggested with by the State of Indiana. Please also consider
- executing a living will for any State that you spend more than a
- few weeks per year, or where you are a temporary resident.
-
- Statute number: Indiana Statues 16-8-11-1
- Statute title: "Indiana Living Wills and Life-Prolonging
- Procedures Act"
-
- Governmental Agency to contact for more information: None
- specified
-
- A specific form of living will is suggested
-
- Witness requirements: Number: 2 [The statute does not require
- anything specific of witnesses other than they must be over
- 18 years of age; the statutory suggested form however, adds
- certain other requirements, it is impossible to determine if the
- legislature requires that the Relationship: Witnesses may
- not be related by blood or marriage, may not be directly
- responsible for the medical costs of the declarant and must be
- over 19 years of age.
-
- Recording of the living will is not provided for
-
- Revocation of the living will may be made physical destruction of
- the same (tearing, defacing, burning). In addition, the living
- will may be revoked by the execution of a separate document of
- revocation.