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In Colorado, the living will is the Declaration as to Medical Treatment, a document of its own, apart from the healthcare power of attorney.

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Any adult with decisional capacity may make a declaration as to medical treatment in Colorado.

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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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No. Colorado prescribes no form. The document prepared here is composed to the statute and prints the definitions the statute gives the conditions it names.

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; persistent vegetative state, as certified by your attending physician and one other physician. Colorado defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes, with a separate election. Colorado lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn, and requires that choice to be stated specifically in the words the statute prescribes; the document carries the election with an initials line. § 15-18-104(4): "Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3) of this section and section 15-18-103 (10), when an attending physician or advanced practice registered nurse has determined that pain results from a discontinuance of artificial nutrition and hydration, the physician or advanced prac.

Colorado recognizes these ways to revoke it: orally; in writing; by burning, tearing, canceling, obliterating, or destroying said declaration.

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In Colorado, the Declaration as to Medical Treatment stands on its own statute, separate from the healthcare power of attorney and with its own execution section. The document is the declaration by itself; an agent is named with the healthcare power of attorney.

Colorado prescribes no form. The declaration is composed to the statute and carries the definitions Colorado law gives the conditions it names.

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

Signing in Colorado 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.

Colorado recognizes a registry for it: Statewide electronic system for advance health-care directives (C.R.S. Title 25, Article 54), administered by the Department of Public Health and Environment through contracted health information organization networks; called the "Advance Directive Registry" in 5 CCR 1006-3. Filing a signed declaration there is a separate step from signing it.

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