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In Connecticut, the living will is the Document Concerning Health Care and Withholding or Withdrawal of Life Support Systems, a document of its own, apart from the healthcare power of attorney.

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Any person eighteen years of age or older may make a document concerning health care and withholding or withdrawal of life support systems in Connecticut.

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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. Connecticut 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; no notary is required.

When you can no longer make your own treatment decisions and your condition is one the statute names: terminal condition; permanently unconscious. Connecticut defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes. Connecticut lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn. If the attending physician or advanced practice registered nurse does not deem the incapacitated patient to be in a terminal condition or permanently unconscious, beneficial medical treatment including nutrition and hydration must be provided.

Connecticut recognizes these ways to revoke it: a living will may be revoked at any time and in any manner by the declarant.

The Living Will in Connecticut

Connecticut treats the living will as a document of its own: the statute calls it the Document Concerning Health Care and Withholding or Withdrawal of Life Support Systems 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.

Connecticut prints the form in the statute; in the statute's words, “may be in substantially 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.

Connecticut names the conditions in which the declaration operates: terminal condition; permanently unconscious. It applies only once the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions.

Signing in Connecticut takes the declarant's signature before 2 adult witnesses; no notary is involved.

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In Connecticut, the living will is the Document Concerning Health Care and Withholding or Withdrawal of Life Support Systems, a document of its own, apart from the healthcare power of attorney.

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The Living Will in Connecticut

Connecticut names the conditions in which the declaration operates: terminal condition; permanently unconscious. It applies only once the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions.

Signing in Connecticut takes the declarant's signature before 2 adult witnesses; no notary is involved.

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