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In Florida, the living will is the Living Will, a document of its own, apart from the healthcare power of attorney.

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Any competent adult may, at any time, make a living will or written declaration may make a living will in Florida.

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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. Florida prints the form in the statute, published by Agency for Health Care Administration. 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 condition; end-stage condition; persistent vegetative state, as certified by your attending physician and one other physician. Florida defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes. Florida lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn.

Florida recognizes these ways to revoke it: by means of a signed, dated writing; by means of the physical cancellation or destruction of the advance directive by the principal or by another in the principal's presence and at the principal's direction; by means of an oral expression of intent to amend or revoke; by means of a subsequently executed advance directive that is materially different from a previously executed advance directive.

The Living Will in Florida

In Florida, the Living Will 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.

Florida prints the form in the statute, and Agency for Health Care Administration publishes it; in the statute's words, “A living will may, 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.

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

Signing in Florida 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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