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In Arkansas, the living will is the Declaration, a document of its own, apart from the healthcare power of attorney.

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An individual of sound mind and eighteen (18) or more years of age may make a declaration in Arkansas.

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Yes. Arkansas 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. 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 condition; permanently unconscious, as certified by your attending physician and one other physician. Arkansas defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes. Arkansas lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn. (A) The wishes of a patient who requests nutrition or hydration, or both, shall be honored.

Arkansas recognizes these ways to revoke it: a declaration may be revoked at any time and in any manner by the declarant without regard to the declarant's mental or physical condition; an advance directive that conflicts with an earlier advance directive revokes the earlier advance directive to the extent of the conflict.

The Living Will in Arkansas

Arkansas treats the living will as a document of its own: the statute calls it the Declaration and gives it its own signing rule, apart from the healthcare power of attorney. The document is that declaration alone; naming an agent is the healthcare power of attorney's work.

Arkansas prints the form in the statute; in the statute's words, “A declaration may be, but need not be, in the following form”. 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.

Arkansas names the conditions in which the declaration operates: terminal condition; permanently unconscious. 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 Arkansas takes the declarant's signature before 2 adult witnesses, or a notary acknowledgment in place of the witnesses. Another adult may sign for a declarant who cannot, at the declarant's direction and in the declarant's presence.

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