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

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Any adult person may, at any time, make a written declaration may make a declaration in Louisiana.

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Yes. Louisiana prints the form in the statute, published by Louisiana Secretary of State. 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 and irreversible condition, as certified by your attending physician and one other physician. Louisiana defines that term in the statute, and the document prints the definition it uses.

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 Louisiana lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn.

Louisiana recognizes these ways to revoke it: by being cancelled, defaced, obliterated, burned, torn, or otherwise destroyed by the declarant or by some person in the presence of and at the direction of the declarant; by a written revocation of the declarant expressing the intent to revoke, signed and dated by the declarant; by an oral or nonverbal expression by the declarant of the intent to revoke the declaration; for a declaration registered with the secretary of state's office, by the filing of a written notice of revocation in that office.

The Living Will in Louisiana

Louisiana 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.

Louisiana prints the form in the statute, and Louisiana Secretary of State publishes it; in the statute's words, “The declaration may, but need not, be in the following illustrative form and may include other specific directions including but not limited to a designation of another person to make the treatment decision for the declarant should he be diagnosed as having a terminal and irreversible condition and be comatose”. 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.

Louisiana names one condition in which the declaration operates: terminal and irreversible condition. 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 Louisiana takes the declarant's signature before 2 adult witnesses; no notary is involved.

A signed declaration may be filed with Louisiana Secretary of State's Living Will Registry, the registry Louisiana recognizes for advance directives.

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The Living Will in Louisiana

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

A signed declaration may be filed with Louisiana Secretary of State's Living Will Registry, the registry Louisiana recognizes for advance directives.

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