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DECLARATION OF A DESIRE FOR A NATURAL DEATH AS PROVIDED BY NORTH
CAROLINA G.S. 90-321
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.
This the ______________ day of ___________________ 19______
________________________________________________
SIGNATURE-- _________________
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.
Witness
____________________________________________________________
Witness
____________________________________________________________
Certificate
I, _____________________________________________(state if Clerk
of Superior Court or Deputy Clerk or Notary Public) for
_________________________________ 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
that __________________________________ and
__________________________ 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 elated 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
genuineness and due execution of the declaration. This the _____
_____ of ______________, 19______.
________________________________________________
Title: ____________________________________
County of _____________