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

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A competent individual eighteen (18) years of age or older may make a declaration in Rhode Island.

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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. Rhode Island prints the form in the statute. The document prepared here is that form, filled from your answers, with the agent parts left blank.

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, as certified by your physician. Rhode Island defines that term in the statute, and the document prints the definition it uses.

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 Rhode Island lets the declaration direct that artificially provided nutrition and hydration be withheld or withdrawn.

Rhode Island recognizes these ways to revoke it: at any time and in any manner by which the declarant is able to communicate an intent to revoke, without regard to mental or physical condition.

The Living Will in Rhode Island

Rhode Island 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.

Rhode Island prints the form in the statute; in the statute's words, “A declaration may, but need not, be in the following form”. The document is that form, filled from the entries, with the agent parts left blank.

Rhode Island names one condition in which the declaration operates: terminal condition. The physician certifies the condition before the declaration takes effect. It applies only once the declarant can no longer make treatment decisions.

Signing in Rhode Island 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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