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In Alabama, the living will is the Advance Directive for Health Care, a written instruction that is valid with no agent named.

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Any competent adult may execute a living will may make a advance directive for health care in Alabama.

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Yes. Alabama prints the form in the statute, published by Alabama Department of Public Health. The document prepared here is that form text with your entries in its blanks and your choices marked where the form has you initial them; the agent parts are omitted.

The declarant signs it in the presence of 2 adult witnesses; no notary is required. A declarant who cannot sign may have another adult sign at the declarant's direction and in the declarant's presence.

When you can no longer make your own treatment decisions and your condition is one the statute names: terminal illness or injury; permanent unconsciousness, as certified by your attending physician and one other physician. Alabama defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes, with a separate election. Alabama lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn, and requires that choice to be stated specifically in the words the statute prescribes; the document carries the election with an initials line.

Alabama recognizes these ways to revoke it: by being obliterated, burnt, torn, or otherwise destroyed or defaced in a manner indicating intention to cancel; by a written revocation of the advance directive for health care signed and dated by the declarant or person acting at the direction of the declarant; by a verbal expression of the intent to revoke the advance directive for health care in the presence of a witness 19 years of age or older who signs and dates a writing confirming that such expression of intent was made.

The Living Will in Alabama

Alabama writes the living will into its advance-directive statute, where a written instruction that names no agent is itself a directive. The document is the Advance Directive for Health Care with the instruction part completed and the agent part left to the healthcare power of attorney.

Alabama prints the form in the statute, and Alabama Department of Public Health publishes it; in the statute's words, “The advance directive for health care shall be substantially in the following form, but in addition may include other specific directions”. The document reproduces the form's text with the entries in its blanks and the elections marked where the form has the declarant initial them.

Alabama names the conditions in which the declaration operates: terminal illness or injury; permanent unconsciousness. Two physicians, the attending physician and one other, certify the condition before the declaration takes effect. It applies only once the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions.

Signing in Alabama takes the declarant's signature before 2 adult witnesses; no notary is involved. Another adult may sign for a declarant who cannot, at the declarant's direction and in the declarant's presence.

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(5)·Updated September 27, 2026

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