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In Kentucky, the living will is the Living Will Directive, a written instruction that is valid with no agent named.

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An adult with decisional capacity may make a written living will directive may make a living will directive in Kentucky.

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Yes. Kentucky prints the form in the statute, published by Office of the Attorney General. 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. Kentucky defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes, with a separate election. Kentucky lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn, and requires that choice to be stated specifically in the words the statute prescribes; the document carries the election with an initials line.

Kentucky recognizes these ways to revoke it: a writing declaring an intention to revoke, which writing shall be signed and dated by the grantor; an oral statement of intent to revoke made by a grantor with decisional capacity in the presence of two (2) adults, one (1) of whom shall be a health care provider; destruction of the document by the grantor or by some person in the grantor's presence and at the grantor's direction.

The Living Will in Kentucky

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

Kentucky prints the form in the statute, and Office of the Attorney General publishes it; in the statute's words, “A living will directive made pursuant to KRS 311.623 shall be substantially in the following form, and may include other specific directions which are in accordance with accepted medical practice and not specifically prohibited by any other statute”. 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; permanently unconscious. Two physicians, the attending physician and one other, certify the condition before the declaration takes effect.

Signing in Kentucky 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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In Kentucky, the living will is the Living Will Directive, a written instruction that is valid with no agent named.

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Financial Power of Attorney

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