Free Pennsylvania Living Will

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

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An individual of sound mind may make a living will governing the initiation, continuation, withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment if the individual: (1) is 18 years of age or older; (2) has graduated from high school; (3) has married; or (4) is an emancipated minor. may make a living will in Pennsylvania.

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Yes. Pennsylvania 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. 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: end-stage medical condition; permanently unconscious, as certified by your physician. Pennsylvania defines each term in the statute, and the document prints the definitions it uses.

Yes, with a separate election. Pennsylvania lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn, and requires that choice to be stated specifically in the words the statute prescribes; the document carries the election with an initials line. Artificial nutrition and hydration counts as life-sustaining treatment only "if the advance health care directive or order so specifically provides" (§ 5422), and § 5429(a) requires "life-sustaining treatment, nutrition and hydration" to be provided to a pregnant woman who is incompetent and has an.

Pennsylvania recognizes these ways to revoke it: at any time and in any manner by the principal regardless of the mental or physical condition of the principal; by a later advance health care directive, to the extent of a conflict, unless the instruments expressly provide otherwise.

The Living Will in Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania treats the living will as a document of its own: the statute calls it the Living Will 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.

Pennsylvania prints the form in the statute; in the statute's words, “A living will may be in any written form expressing the wishes of a principal regarding the initiation, continuation, withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and may include other specific directions, including, but not limited to”. 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.

Pennsylvania names the conditions in which the declaration operates: end-stage medical condition; permanently unconscious. The physician certifies the condition before the declaration takes effect. It applies only once the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions.

Signing in Pennsylvania 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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