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

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an adult may give an individual instruction may make a advance health care directive in Alaska.

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The state whose law the document is prepared under. In Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Oregon, treatment instructions are part of the healthcare power of attorney; those state pages lead there.

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Yes. Alaska prints the form in the statute. 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, or acknowledges it before a notary public instead.

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

Yes. Alaska lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn if providing, withholding, or withdrawing artificial nutrition, artificial hydration, or artificial nutrition and hydration is in accord with generally accepted health care standards applicable to health care providers or institutions.

Alaska recognizes these ways to revoke it: at any time and in any manner that communicates an intent to revoke (all or part of an advance health care directive, other than the designation of an agent); by a later advance health care directive that conflicts with the earlier one, to the extent of the conflict; in the case of mental illness: by a principal who does not lack capacity and is competent, effective when the revocation is communicated to a physician or other health care provider.

The Living Will in Alaska

Under Alaska's advance-directive statute, a directive may give treatment instructions without appointing an agent. The document is that instruction-only Advance Health Care Directive; the agent part of the same instrument belongs to the healthcare power of attorney.

Alaska prints the form in the statute; in the statute's words, “The following sample form may be used to create an advance health care directive. The other sections of this chapter govern the effect of this or any other writing used to create an advance health care directive”. 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.

The declaration operates when the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions and the condition is one the statute names: terminal condition; permanent unconsciousness. Two physicians, the attending physician and one other, certify the condition before the declaration takes effect.

The statute's own form carries the signing: the declarant signs before 2 adult witnesses, or a notary acknowledgment in place of the witnesses.

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(5)·Updated September 28, 2026

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