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- SUMMARY OF STATE LIVING WILL LEGISLATION
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- MISSOURI
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- Synopsis: Missouri has a strong living will statute.
- If a patient has executed a living will, it is to be made a
- part of the patient's medical records. A physician/hospital
- which does not want to effectuate a living will must take all
- reasonable steps to transfer the patient. To prepare a Missouri
- living will using the state suggested form, please select living
- will preparation 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 Missouri.
- 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.
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- Statute number: Missouri Statutes Section 459.010
- Statute title: "Missouri Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act"
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- Governmental Agency to contact for more information: None
- specified
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- A specific form of living will is suggested
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- Witness requirements: Number: 2 over the age of 18 years
- Relationship: No qualifications are set in the statute
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- Recording of the living will is not provided for
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- Revocation of the living will may be made whether or not the
- declarant is mentally competent, by "any manner in by which
- the declarant is able to communicate an intent to revoke";
- In addition, a separate writing revoking the same is effective
- and the living will can be revoked by physical destruction of the
- same.