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

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a competent person … "Principal" means a person 18 years of age or older who has executed an advance directive pursuant to the provisions of this chapter may make a living will in New Hampshire.

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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. New Hampshire 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, 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: permanently unconscious; advanced life-limiting, incurable and progressive condition; actively dying, as certified by your attending physician and one other physician. New Hampshire defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

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 New Hampshire lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn.

New Hampshire recognizes these ways to revoke it: by written revocation delivered to the agent or surrogate or to a health care provider or residential care provider expressing the principal's intent to revoke, signed and dated by the principal; by oral revocation in the presence of 2 or more witnesses, none of whom shall be a person disqualified from acting as a witness under RSA 137-J:14, I(a); by any other act evidencing a specific intent to revoke the power, such as by burning, tearing, or obliterating the same or causing the same to be done by some other person at the principal's direction and in the principal's physical presence.

The Living Will in New Hampshire

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

New Hampshire prints the form in the statute; in the statute's words, “An advance directive in its individual 'Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care' and 'Living Will' components shall 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.

The declaration operates when the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions and the condition is one the statute names: permanently unconscious; advanced life-limiting, incurable and progressive condition; actively dying. Two physicians, the attending physician and one other, certify the condition before the declaration takes effect.

Signing in New Hampshire 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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